A new standard in Drupal charting
At DC DrupalCON 2009, a lot of new code came on the scenes:
http://drupal.org/project/views_charts
http://drupal.org/project/views_groupby
http://drupal.org/project/charts_graphs
Session info: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/business-analytics-drupal-views
Video of the presentation: http://www.archive.org/details/DrupalconDc2009-BusinessAnalyticsWithViews
Statistics Pro Released
The module creates statistics with aggregated data. The data will be stored in a new table, which will be updated with a cron run. This statistic module provides statistical results of nodes, comments and users. Those results will be stored even if the access-log or the watchdog table have been deleted. For the presentation the data views and charts module are used. The Drupal core statistics module is used for the raw data (actually it is required for statspro).
Read moreNew Bonus View type
Hi there,
I've been playing around with the theming functions of Views and I constructed a very simple theme for a View. I call it: Flash XML Viewer.
Basically what you do is construct a regular block view and choose 'Flash: XML Viewer' from the type select. Then you define your filters and sorting order (fields and arguments will not be used for this view). Not sure if exposed filters will work, haven't tested, just built this module this morning.
Read moreNew Timeline module
I have been playing with the Timeline project from simile.mit.edu.
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/
The Timeline project delivers a scrollable, DHTML timeline which is analogous to the Google Maps interface (as seen in GMap module) except this shows a timeline of nodes. This project is new and under active development, but working mostly.
The attached module requires views module. It provides 2 views plugins: Timeline Horizontal (works) and Timeline Vertical (does not work due to bug in Timeline project). It also provides the beginnings of an API of sorts, where you can programmatically make timelines. E.g. this function
Read moreViews Bonus Pack
Just an FYI, I created a Views Bonus Pack module.
Any dev who wants commit access to add plugins, just ask me. The idea being that this is just a collection of Cool Stuff that people can grab.
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