Releases for Viewfield

Changes since DRUPAL-5--1-4:

• #216827: Improved argument parsing. Arguments that contained commas were not being parsed correctly.
• Improved method for counting results.
• #253999: Fields that did not have a default view would not save any view.
• #256972: Leaving all views unchecked should make all views available in node edit form.
• Added translation template.

Changes since DRUPAL-5--1-3:

• Fixed error caused by recursive calls to token_replace_multiple().
• Fixed Drupal coding standards violations.
• Changed name to Viewfield for consistency.

Changes since DRUPAL-5--1-2:

• #138028 by Crell. Restrict viewfields to certain views.
• #146574 by stormsweeper. Fixed vname column type for PostgreSQL.
• #142709 Added option to use block format.
• #121496 Fixed token recursion.
• Golly, there sure are a lot of changes in this check-in.
  1. Viewfield now supports smart defaults where if you update it on the field admin page, it updates for all nodes. This should be a feature of every CCK field.
  2. Better recursion handling.
  3. Upgrade path for people using the old arg style, but who want to switch to token.
  4. Better use of views hooks. This could be better yet.
  5. Miscellaneous other stuff.

  This is probably still unstable, but it’s totally rad and you are encouraged to try it out.

• Fixing up the new super default feature: if a node does not override the default (via a checkbox on the form), no data is stored in the db (pros and cons to that). On load, the node is populated with the default values so that it appears to have a default view and args. However, admins can update the site wide default for all nodes at once. Very convenient. Frankly, this feature should be moved to CCK proper, but I don't care to fight that battle. Enjoy it in viewfield!
• Correcting a small bug in the way viewfield adds a default flag to the super default fields. It wasn’t a problem with form submissions, but programatic submissions were tossing an error.
• #177065 by Darren Oh. Force default won't save true value.
• #206167 by moshe weitzman. Most formatters busted since super default feature introduced. Add in a few choice lines from content.module's implementation so that is defined.
• #217757 by Rob Loach. Made force default work.

dev snapshot

A bug fix release, mainly. I was hoping to have token.module support ready, but there are some recursion issues that we need to clear up first. Look forward to token.module support in 1.3!

Thanks for all the bug fixes and patches.

-Mark

Some great new features:

- 100085 -- Use any view plugin as a formatter (in cck or other views)

And some bug fixes:

- 118764 -- Typo in translating arguments

Thanks to everyone who helped with this release!

Viewfield for 5.0

Thanks to eaton, webchick, alex_b, yched, and stefano73 for helping get viewfield ready for Drupal 5.0.

This release is basically a compatibility release. Some changes to the implementation:
1. More reliance on the views formatters (as seems to be the norm for CCK fields now) for formatting regular node views.
2. The full node formatter is now the "default". This may break some existing views. It's worth the pain.
3. Added paging as per stefano73/alex_b's work. Relatively untested, but it looks good so far. (Thanks!)

Watch http://drupal.org/node/100971 for further updates on viewfield's future.