Views Developers

Hello, I was wondering if there was a way to have the arguments feature of views only process arguments if the argument is preceded with the title of the argument defined in the view. To better explain what I mean, let me use the example in paragraph three in the "Views Arguments" Documentation:

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Hello views aficionados. If anyone has the time, could you review the module posted in

http://drupal.org/node/103171

It's a module (that I will recode as a patch to views itself, eventually) that provides views within forms. These views can be used to select nodes. It includes exposed filters and a pager, and it generally behaves exactly the same as any other view would.

The module even includes a test harness where you can click a few buttons and test the new form element with any view on your website.

This is not production code, but I wanted to alert people early. Please do review this module and let us know what you think. It's a lot of code, and may require some changes to the underlying views implementation, so the more people who try it, break it, and suggest changes the better. Also, you can use this to start testing with your own modules.

I'd like CCK to do tables :-)

One existing solution is the Matrix Field module: it provides a new field type where you can set up a matrix of textfields. The data type is string, and seems to be independent from the other CCK field types.

This doesn't meet my needs because I'd like to mix different CCK fields, for example a column of nodereference fields with a column of number fields.

I have a mostly-working Views Calendar module available at http://www.drupal.org/project/calendar. It's still a little buggy and the css needs tweaking but it is generally working. Create a view and select the Calendar display (instead of table or teaser). Add any date field to the view (CCK dates, event dates, node updated dates, whatever). Add three arguments, Calendar: Year, Calendar: Month, and Calendar: Day.

Navigate to the view where you will see a year of mini calendars. Click on a month name to see the month or a day name to see the day. Back and next navigation is provided for month and day views (not yet added to the year view). It comes with a default calendar that displays all nodes in a calendar by their last updated dates. If you like, select the Calendar view for the block, too to get a mini calendar in a block.

Hey together!

Is there any current development inprogress to integrate USER location-data in views?
The great location_views module does an excellent job regarding the integration of node-locations ... however, often you (well, at least i ;) need to integrate - and later proximity-search - the location of the user who posted the content.
Example: a Skill- or Equipmepment-Database build with CCK, location and views, where Skill- or Equipment-nodes are added by each user and listet/searched via a view. There you need to display and proximity-search for the user's location - not a node-specific location (since not a single skill or equipment has a - maybe changing! - location, but it's user).

Since part of the purpose of this group is to track views development, I thought I would share my solution for creating flexible date range arguments for the Date module.

Creating arguments for date fields is hard because there are so many possible ways people might want to use them. You may need to find a full date or a part of a date or you may want to look for a date + duration or maybe specify that the duration will start on the current date or some other date, etc. etc. In creating arguments for dates I have been finding that the list of arguments in views gets longer and longer, but no matter how many you create, someone will always come back and ask for another type of argument.

I was wondering if there was anything in the works that would allow views to take input from a user. I.E. a form that has text fields, checkboxes, and/or pull-down menues. Views is an amazing way to search through a site and seems close to what I am looking for. Does anyone know of anything like this in the works for views?

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

I've got a views integration for my nodeprofile modules working. This also works for general nodes, not only for nodeprofiles.

By doing the nodefamily views integration I ended in writing the module views_fusion:

With this module its possible to build views which display information of several nodes in one view - useful for tabular views.

This is achieved by defining multiple views, one for each node. Then the views fusion module is used to melt these views to a big one which contains all the information.

More information on this module

This module works great together with the nodefamily module, so it's possible to use nodefamily relations for joining the views/nodes. However I've written the module in a general way so that it's possible for other node relation modules to use it the same way.

Of course testers and feedback are welcome.. :)