HowTo/Tutorial for creating tabbed views
mathieso - July 5, 2009 - 17:42
| Project: | Views |
| Version: | 6.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | Documentation |
| Category: | task |
| Priority: | normal |
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| Status: | active |
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Description
Thought I would write a HowTo for beginners (like me) to show how to create a tabbed interface of views like the one in the attached image. Couldn't find a simple example in the docs. It would have helped me if there had been one.
The page http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/views said to create an issue here with this suggestion. But I don't know what to do now.
How do I go about contributing the documentation?
(Sorry if I'm misunderstanding what I should do. Haven't contributed to Drupal before.)
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#1
you could write a patch for the advanced help
Do you need informations how to create patches etc?
More documentation is awesome!
#2
WHOA.
@mathieso: Ignore the instructions on that page and forget about writing patches. Just write it out however and wherever you can.
What is going on here guys? Next we'll be writing patches in order to submit comments.
Addressed further on the handboook page.
#3
For those who can't/won't learn to do patches, completely separate tutorials can be written up and submitted.
#4
Hi mathieso - I'm also a beginner, and would be very interested to read your How To / Tutorial... did you ever find a place to post it?
@merlinofchaos - why should a beginner have to learn how to patch the aapplication when all they want to do is provide some additional documentation? (Or is a patch not a patch in drupalspeak?) And where can the seperate tutorials be read once they've been through the submission process? I've tried searching for the "HowTo/Tutorial for creating tabbed views" and "tabbed views" but neither seem to show what was originally being offered here?
#5
Because the documentation is currently packaged with the application using Advanced Help. I'm willing to accept writeups and put them into the structure as needed, though that is a bit more work on my part so takes me longer to get to.
#6
Fair enough, I didn't even know about the Advanced Help module - thanks for pointing it out... from a beginner's point of view, the way Drupal seems to be set up just seems very confusing. Am sure it makes sense once you've developed a few sites, but is very frustrating to begin with.
#7
I think the problem arises when you remove the distinction between the in-module Advanced Help documentation and secondary articles like Tutorials, Recipies, and How-to's.
Even a half-ass, poorly written, non-approved How-to article can trigger a eureka moment.
In my opinion, the contribution of Tutorials, Recipies, and How-to's should be encouraged with as little friction as possible, in a wiki-like environment, while the Advanced Help documentation should have a more formal submission/review/approval process .
I'm not exactly sure where the line should be drawn but overlap should not really be a problem.
#8
@Zach, Where is the 'non approved' article you mention? I could help try formatting it, and then submitting a patch. Then it can be official!
@matheiso You could make a .html page with most of the HTML formatted according to the same style of the existing Views help pages which appear in the Advanced Help area for Views. This is what I did originally, and it makes it easier for someone else to make a patch.
I was thinking of preparing some info on making tabbed views, but I don't want to duplicate effort.
I learned how to make patches recently! If you can get a chance to join in a Drupal event, like a meet-up, a conference or a code sprint, someone can sit down and show you. Someone showed me at a recent code sprint, only took 10 minutes to work out, and it was a real good step to learn how to do it.
Before that, I found the online tutorials difficult. I use Aptana Studio, which makes it easier than using the command prompt.