Please, support the the possibility to access other table from another database than drupal's.

May be, is needed a new type, like "external data", a new box in the wizard to insert the database and table.
For the fields, it should be simple to read the table data structure and display the avaiables fields.

filter and sort should work fine

In my opinion this is one the more needed feature in Drupal. Simple, user friendly, and easy to maintain! instead of build custom modules ....

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merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Simple, user friendly, and easy to maintain!

For you, maybe. For me it sounds like a nightmare. It can already support external databases, but there is absolutely no way there will ever be a UI that lets you enter database and table names.

drupallfm’s picture

drupallfm CreditAttribution: drupallfm commented

Oh, a UI would be awesome, but I really dont't know the complexity to do that nowadays (with the drupal/php tech), I did something like the views with that possibility, but was 9 years ago, when I was a developer, today, I only try to use things already made and give some advices / features requests :-)

I still belive that you may have a second thought ;-)

When you say, that views already suport external database, how can we do it? could you help me in this ?
is there any doc that explains that?

Many thks, and by the way, great job you are doing with this module,

Mołot’s picture

Mołot CreditAttribution: Mołot commented

If there still is a non-UI support for external databases, pleas post in http://drupal.org/node/141798 about it. Just a link to proper docs would be great.