Posted by julma on February 21, 2008 at 5:31pm
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| Project: | Ajax Table |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Documentation |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Issue Summary
I am wondering about the difference between the Views module and this module ?
How do you see the two modules and the difference between them ?
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#1
Hi Julma,
I maintain Ajaxtable, and in comparison with views it's really a different beast. To define an ajaxtable, you need to use a programming API, much like with the forms API. You basically just create an array in the function that defines what the ajaxtable does and how it displays. It's particularly useful for handling administrative tasks, like managing comments or nodes, and can be used by other modules. It provides some tools for searching data and adding ajax-enabled columns. It's mainly a productivity tool, and while it can be used for front-end display, my main intention in creating it was for quicker administration of data, and helping clients manage nodes without a bunch of page refreshes. I have used ajaxtable for front-end display, but mainly because it's quicker for me to create views of data programmatically, rather than using the Vews UI.
Views, on the other hand, seems like a more comprehensive, less specific module that lets you do something similar: display lists of data. There is a table-type view, but as far as I know there isn't a views module that provides the same kind of tools as ajaxtable. It has a nice front-end to create your views without touching code. Views has more featured geared towards front-end use, such as the RRS feed generator.
All in all, I think views is good for general-purpose data view creation. Ajaxtable is geared specifically toward ajax-enabled displays within a table, typically for administrative purposes. Views has been around a long time and has a wide user base. Ajaxtable is fairly new growing a small following.
I hope that helps!
#2
Hum look interesting,
Because I try to use views also for managing data as your module seem to do it.
But I don't want to use it to change the content itself.
I want to take the nodes and put them in different lists in any order I want.
And I want that any user can do his own node lists.
Is it also something that your module could do easily ?
Kind Regards
#3
I have the same question. I was just developing an admin interface with views. Users should be able to see a picture, a date created time and some taxonomy fields. Is this something which can be done if you only have a rather basic php knowledge? I'm very curious, because this module looks very promising for usability!
Best regards