Using a page as a block
sbanawan - March 26, 2009 - 19:27
I've got a "news" block on my front page. I've also got a "news" page. Is there a way to have the block pull from that news page? Right now, I'm manually updating both and that doesn't seem right. TIA.
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Checkout the http://drupal.org/project/nodeasblock module. Alternatively, you could just do it with a custom block. Now that I think about it, you could also do it with views for that matter.
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Views confuse the heck out of me.
I need to look at a manual to figure out Views. I have never been able to figure them out. I'll check out that link to see if it helps. In the meantime, I'll try to get my head around Views because it seems like a useful concept. :)
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the advanced help.module exposes a great deal of documentation where it concerns views and there are quite a few beginner to intermediate videocasts about views as well that helped me come to terms with it.
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To the original poster, as somebody who has only been using Drupal for a couple months and barely scratching the surface with Views, I encourage you to hang in there. Try and watch a couple video demos on using Views. I think that helped me the most. It's an amazing module even if the interface seems to have been designed by a committee led by Picasso and Salvador Dali. That said, the ability to enter data once and present it in different ways is exactly what views does.