By valentino_42 on

I've started toying around with Drupal to get a small town newspaper's website dynamic.

I installed the Image module and was able quickly get a thumbnail to show up along with my teaser on the front page with Image Attach...

But what I'm really gunning for is to group news stories by taxonomy term (like news, sports, etc) and each story's thumbnail show up beside the teaser using Views. I've figured out grouping things by taxonomy, but I'm at a brick wall as far as having my attached images show up as thumbnails in my View block.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about: http://www.aha-workshop.com/drupal/

The content on the left is displaying without using Views, so it is a mix of News and Sports stories. The content on the right is a block I've created in Views that is only showing the most recent 2 News stories - and if you notice, the thumbnails aren't there. What settings do I need to apply in Views to get them to appear?

As a bonus question: each time I try to add the Post Date field to my View, I get this error: "Error: handler for node > created doesn't exist!" Is this simply a problem with RC5 of the Views module?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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rayray’s picture

rayray commented

I don't think this is possible. I've been trying for a week now, off and on.

See http://drupal.org/node/220295 for a possible fix, which hasn't worked for me!

danieldrake’s picture

danieldrake commented

Hey there.

Currently working on a similar project; just thought I'd add what I've done in case you're still wondering.

Someone added a patch for this purpose to the latest dev of Views 2. If you install 6.x-2.x-dev (http://drupal.org/node/95897) you should be able to generate the thumbnail.

When going to add a field to your view, you get a drop-down list with "", "Comment", "Node", etc. If your upgrade to the dev version is successful, you'll have a new selection called "Image Attach". Click on it, and you'll be able to check off the field "Image Attach: Attached Image". Click [Add] and you'll be able to assign a Label, Link and/or Scale/Crop setting.

I can't guarantee the dev-update will work, though; it appears to be a little hit and miss. Good luck!

klucid’s picture

klucid commented

Hmm... It didn't work for me.

I feel like there something simple I'm leaving out because I'm using the friendslist module on another website and with a little customizatioin I have the user images showing up on a friendslist view.

Klucid: Graphic Design

dhatman’s picture

dhatman commented

I've very recently got into Drupal development and I'm in need for the feature to include thumbnails of images in Views. Will this feature that you're working on be included in the stable releases any time soon, or should I make a custom view somehow in order to get this done? Perhaps you would be so kind to direct me to what I need to get into in order to produce a custom view that includes the image thumbnails.. ?