ARCHIVE: Tutorial #2: Make a page view called "Module News"

Last updated March 26, 2011. Created by ksenzee on April 17, 2006.
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This tutorial will teach you how to use filters in the views module. If anything doesn't make sense, do tutorial #1 on the previous page first.

Make a category called News

1. Go to administer > > categories.
2. Click tab called "add vocabulary."
3. Enter "news" for vocabulary name.
4. Click "blog entry" and "story" for node types.
5. Click submit.

Add a vocabulary term called "Module News"

From the administer >> categories page

1. Go to the row called News.
2. Click "list terms."
3. Click tab "add term."
4. Type "Module News" for term name.
5. Click submit.
6. Click tab "add term."
7. Type "General News" for term name.
8. Click submit.

Make a new page with category "Module News"

1. Go to "create content."
2. Pick "story."
3. For title, put in "Module-Builder Module released."
4. For the category, pick "Module News."
5. For body, put in "The module-builder module lets you build modules."
6. Click submit.

Make a view called Module News

1. Go to administer >> views.
2. Make a new view called "Module News" (See Tutorial 1 for views module if you don't know how).
3. Put in "modulenews" for description.
4. Put in "Module News" for title.
5. Choose Page View.
6. Choose List View.
7. Put "modulenews" for the URL.
8. Add a field called Title.
9. Add a field called Date Updated.
10. Delete the existing filter.
11. Under filters, do add filter.
12. Taxonomy: Terms for News is one of module news. For sort criteria, delete the current one.
13. Add one called Node, last updated time.
14. Pick descending.
15. click submit

Congratulations. You are done.

The page is at www.example.com/modulenews (replace "example" with the name of your site).