Views

Views module provides a flexible method for Drupal administrators to control how lists of posts are retrieved and presented. There are various views add on's that should be added here.

Semantic Views

bangpound - September 4, 2009 - 14:45

This Views plugin makes unformatted styles, field row styles and other output more readily configurable without needing to override template files. Instead of overriding row style templates for views where you want to specify different HTML elements (tags) and class attributes, you can specify these inside the Views UI and avoid overriding templates for each view.

Views Slideshow: Dynamic Display Block

ppblaauw - August 29, 2009 - 10:20
Views Slideshow: Dynamic Display Block

The Views Slideshow: Dynamic Display Block module is a views_slideshow plugin mainly used to showcase featured content at a prominent place on the frontpage of the site in an attractive way. A featured content slideshow can contain e.g.: New articles, Most popular content, New products, Portfolios, etc.

Note:

  • This is at the moment a development version for testing purposes only. Recommended to test the module against 6.x-2 versions of the views_slideshow module which have better support for views_slideshow plugins
  • There are several other slideshow/carousel/rotator/tab modules available for Drupal. Have a look at this comparison to find out what suits you best.

Usages

  • Featured Content
  • Ubercart Products
  • Image Galleries
  • Video Galleries
  • Header Slideshows
  • Text sliders

Features

  • Any content
  • Multiple content delivery options
  • Multiple slideshows
  • Configuration settings per slideshow
  • Number-, prev/next-, text-, image-pagers
  • Free and commercial layout themes

Heading Normalizer

Headings (h1..h6) are the key elements to create structural content. This project normalizes heading usage to a common denominator. All pages start at the same heading level in output. You can configure the start level of headings. Furthermore, there's an option to start at a different heading for views.

So what real problem is this solution for?

If you use a wysiwyg editor you might have already heard of the question of wisdom: "which is the first heading to use? h2? h3?".

Our Opinion is: The only right answer is h1 for persistence. But h1 would be wrong in output - so we need an output filter. Here we go.

And the most beautiful part of the story: the filter even corrects (wrong) heading usage to the normalized heading range. If you previously started at heading 3, they will also be correctly normalized to the chosen output level.

How to get started

Install the module, Go to admin/settings/filters page and enable the new filter for the chosen input formats. There must be no HTML Filter present that removes heading tags.

DraggableViews Navigator

sevi - August 19, 2009 - 08:59

This module enhances DraggableViews module.
It provides some new Views handlers:

  • Navigator: Move-to-top links, Move-to-bottom-links (not yet implemented).
  • Order-per-parent: Order values that restart counting for each hierarchy level.

Query-Based Views (Q-Views)

Watch the video demo

Q-Views is currently in Alpha and has a couple of security flaws that need to be sorted out before being released as beta. Note that Alpha releases should never be used on production sites. Please also note this module has multiple critical security flaws.

Query-Based Views (Q-Views) provides the Views-like functionality of generating reports or content feeds, but starts the process with a raw SQL query. In Views, the query is constructed through setting up configuration, but in Q-Views you supply the query directly. This can be a more rapid, reasonable solution in some situations. Q-Views is very AJAX-y by default, with ajax-based pagination and searching, which also means rapid browsing through data. Views is much more mature, so it's encouraged that you use Views when you can, but Q-Views can provide a lot of functionality with low configuration overhead when you would normally build a feed or report outside of Views.

Support Views

Dubs - August 3, 2009 - 11:20

Views Integration for Support tickets, created by the Support module.

This module is still in early stages. Comments are welcome, although I'm pretty busy right now!

PLEASE NOTE: There is no security checking against this module, and the primary purpose for me developing is so I can see all JobTrack tickets and filter AS AN ADMINISTRATOR. Unless you want to allow clients to potentially see other clients' support tickets, don't use jobtrack_views and publish the view for your clients.

Security will be addressed soon though....

Documentation is a little on the light side (i.e. there is none) but it's all standard views really. Just enable the module!

This module is sponsored by NuMedia Advantage who actively use Drupal and the Support modules.

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