Any news?

Might start playing around with this myself in the upcoming weeks. Would really like to be able to query for housing.

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jtsnow commented

Views 3 progress is coming along. Here's what is working:

- Filter for searching by keyword
- Filter for searching by location
- Generic fields such as title, description, posted date, updated date.

I've not got into anything for specific item types, such as housing. I'm thinking of a more generic approach. For example, querying Google Base for meta data. We'll get back a list of suggested content types along with their suggested fields. We'll cache this information and add views fields filters, sorts, etc for each suggested field. This will let us implement generic views handlers such as a 'numeric' filter to handle both "number of bedrooms" and "number of bathrooms" instead of a different handler for each one.

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bryanb229 commented

Thanks for the reply John, I really appreciate it.

I am trying my best to figure out this module on my own, but if I could just bother you with one more question that I've come up with after further examination today, that would really help me out.

What I am wondering after reading over your reply a few times, is that when you are creating the new "generic views handlers" are you doing that from a node view or the Google Base module view. I've spent most of the day trying to filter location from a module view without much success. I tried to go another route with a different content type and was successful once I implemented a relationship with a parent feed into the view. I didn't see this option in the module view option.

If you mind wouldn't mind, your input would be great or maybe just attaching to the thread a screengrab or two from your Views UI, if that is quick and easy for you?