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By jimurl on
I am using D6 , Views 2.0 with the forum module.
What I'd like to do is design a view which shows the last x new posts in reverse chronological order. In this case, I am referring to a 'post' as either a node OR a comment. And therein begins my problem.
Views 2.0 are set up to be either a "node" view or a "comment" view. ONce a view is created, it draws information from one table or the other. If you begin with a node-type view, it does appear the Views module lets you JOIN comment info onto that; but despite playing around with it, I haven't gotten it to display both nodes and comments in the list.
I have played around a bit also with the "relationship" section of the view. Usually, the best I can end up with is a list of comments ordered in revere by comment ID. But brand new forum posts (nodes) then don't appear in the list.
I have searched these forums for things like "Views 2.0 forums comments " etc. but to no avail.
Am I missing something here? Any help would be appreciated if you have seen this before.
Jim
Comments
Node + comments
I'm new to Views, but I'll try to help:
1: A page is a node, a forum topic is a node
2: Comments are always attached to a node
If you choose Node as View type, and then change the "Row Style" to node (instead of fields), and then click on upate (if it was fields before) or settings (if it already was set to node), then you can change the Row style options. When I enable "Display node comments" the preview gives me a list of all nodes and their comments.
It should be possible to filter that list by date.
Now I'm not sure if I just misunderstood what your problem was or if this helps...