Separating export files [#1115966]

There was a request last year in Features issue queue by kenorb for exporting Views into separate files.

#747028: Views export into separate files

The response from yhahn was that such functionality should first happen in CTools/Views. I looked for a ticket in the in the CTools and Views queues but could not find one. Has this been discussed previously? Could this be done with patches to the Bulk Export module?

Comments

Comment #1

merlinofchaos commented 20 April 2011 at 22:04

I have thought about it but I have not yet moved forward on it, nor am have I quite decided the best way to actually do it. Bulk exporting a lot of different files is a little tricker; you need to move past cut & paste and actually produce files, at that point.

Comment #2

joelstein commented 16 June 2011 at 14:50

Here's what we do:

/**
 * Implements hook_views_default_views().
 */
function mymodule_views_default_views() {
  $files = file_scan_directory(drupal_get_path('module', 'mymodule'). '/views/views', '/inc$/');
  foreach ($files as $filename => $file) {
    require $filename;
    $views[$file->name] = $view;
  }
  return $views;
}

/**
 * Implements hook_views_default_views_alter().
 */
function mymodule_views_default_views_alter(&$views) {
  $files = file_scan_directory(drupal_get_path('module', 'mymodule'). '/views/altered', '/inc$/');
  foreach ($files as $filename => $file) {
    if (isset($views[$file->name])) {
      require $filename;
      $views[$file->name] = $view;
    }
  }
}

Works pretty well. Then, we just drop all of our views into mymodule/views/views and name them the name of the view. When we want to export altered views provided by other modules, we put them in mymodule/views/altered.