Views leads to simpleviews
zilla - October 29, 2008 - 04:24
| Project: | Views |
| Version: | 6.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | Documentation |
| Category: | task |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
seriously, i am not sure why this isn't fully integrated INTO VIEWS itself....this is the ultimate tool to bridge the learning gap, click a button and have a view, path and all, then when you get views, go in and edit it, if not then just stick with simple view and use basic options
if you look at the views forums and the types of questions that come up from new views installs, i'd guess that over half would be gone if there were a 'simple views builder' tool added to the interface - right there when you activate views - or am i alone in this thinking?
#1
I imagine it would be much easier to maintain this as a separate module. Maybe when parts of Views gets into Drupal core, Simple Views could be the core UI module, while the advanced Views UI could remain as a separate download. Just an idea.
#2
i hear you -if views goes into core and new users click it, they will be terrified and screw up all sorts of default views by not cloning or accidentally hitting override and so on....this avoids ALL of that
#3
This seems like a good argument for Views to promote the use of Simpleviews.
The Pivots module is already recommending it, but maybe it should be part of the project page?
#4
@greggles - yes, even a mention on project page like "if you are completely new to views, you can build easy views pages and blocks using the simpleviews module without messing up any of the bundled views - use them to learn"