Bug#602831: ITP: drupal6-mod-views -- views modules for Drupal 6
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Al Nikolov <clown@debian.org>
* Package name : drupal6-mod-views
Version : 2.11
Upstream Author : Earl Miles (http://drupal.org/user/26979)
* URL : http://drupal.org/project/views
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: PHP
Description : views modules for Drupal 6
The Views module provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers
to control how lists and tables of content (nodes in Views 1, almost
anything in Views 2) are presented. Traditionally, Drupal has
hard-coded most of this, particularly in how taxonomy and tracker
lists are formatted.
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This tool is essentially a smart query builder that, given enough
information, can build the proper query, execute it, and display the
results. It has four modes, plus a special mode, and provides an
impressive amount of functionality from these modes.
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Among other things, Views can be used to generate reports, create
summaries, and display collections of images and other content.
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You need Views if:
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* You like the default front page view, but you find you want to
sort it differently.
* You like the default taxonomy/term view, but you find you want to
sort it differently; for example, alphabetically.
* You use /tracker, but you want to restrict it to posts of a
certain type.
* You like the idea of the 'article' module, but it doesn't display
articles the way you like.
* You want a way to display a block with the 5 most recent posts of
some particular type.
* You want to provide 'unread forum posts'.
* You want a monthly archive similar to the typical Movable
Type/Wordpress archives that displays a link to the in the form of
"Month, YYYY (X)" where X is the number of posts that month, and
displays them in a block. The links lead to a simple list of
posts for that month.
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Views can do a lot more than that, but those are some of the obvious
uses of Views.
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