Posted by jesslca on November 7, 2012 at 4:22pm
In order to personalize how the node of journal type is show, I created a View to present nodes of this type as I like. Even I put the links to Edit, Track and Outline as a view attachment. The problem is that when I saved the node, Drupal show the default node presentation instead of my view.
Is there another way to do I want to do? Can I tell to Drupal that the default presentation of this node type is my view?
Thanks,
Leto
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Views is really for
Views is really for displaying lists of content.
For theming a content type you can look at display suite, panels or a custom node.tpl.php file. Both display suite and panels extend how you can layout a content type from the UI.
I have too complex node view
The problem is that the journal's type nodes have book structure and are composed by article nodes. When I show a journal, I show the body of this one but also, the list of its articles together with their teasers, number of pages, sections, etc. The default view of a book node in Drupal only is a list of nodes. For this reason I'm using a View.
I think Panels is no the solution because when I edit a node and save it, Drupal show me the default node view instead of the Panel one and, then, I will have the same problem as with Views.
I'm not sure that display suite module could deal with neither book structures nor relationships to show like I want. This is an example of what I am doing:
http://intime.dlsi.ua.es/downloads/journalnode.png
The last option, the use of templates, for me is not available for these reasons:
I'm using thyrd-party theme
No they won't, the update would only affect existing templates not new ones. Other option is to hire someone, won't cost much! Also consider looking at the views attach module, that should help.