| Attribute | Average |
|---|---|
| Features | 4.88 / 5 |
| Reliability | 4.77 / 5 |
| Ease Of Use | 3.65 / 5 |
| Documentation | 4.04 / 5 |
| Vote Count | 26 |
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. This tool is... [More...]
| Maintainer: | merlinofchaos |
| Links: | |
| Categories: | Content display, Views |
| Version | Date | Files | Release notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-2.6 | 2009-Jun-10 | Download | Recommended for 6.x |
| 5.x-1.6 | 2007-Jul-14 | Download | Recommended for 5.x |
| 6.x-2.x-dev | 2009-Jun-11 | Download | Development snapshot |
| 5.x-1.x-dev | 2009-May-06 | Download | Development snapshot |
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Every drupal website should have this module. It's a very useful module and it is very easy to use. I installed it in all my drupal sites.
This is another one of those modules which I just install at the first installation because I know I will use it at some point.
This module is very hard to use once you go past the basic usage. Using relationships and arguments is not easy and good documentation is lacking unfortunately.
Is Views Easy to use? Not alwats. Should it be. Well No. Why? Because the balance of power and features is sometimes mutually exclusive. Where it isn't, the developers of this application is making great strides to improve it. The level of detail in v3 is breath taking. I am simply amazed. Even the CSS structure is refined. I can only give kudo's to all that are involved.
All I can say is that this is a must have application that all users need to spend time to learn. Work with it, be patient, and you will get what you want from it! Keep up the good Work!
Awesomely powerful but difficult to use. V2 is so much more than V1. This is a serious developer's tool - not for the faint of heart!
This module is so important, it deserves to be part of core, OR at least core developers should wait until there is an available version of this module before making new big releases. The new views is almost a total revamp of the earlier version but it does a lot. It is almost perfect except in the easy of use section, but it must be really difficult challenge managing to add all the features in a single dashboard and still keep the beast easy to use.
Really, if you're not using this, you're missing out on Drupal's real power.
This and cck make drupal what it is.
Certainly most modules are going to benefit from Views. It is most definatly needed on any great site, and it is NOT simple to learn but is by far the most powerful of all modules.
I am still getting used to it and am by no means not efficient with Views, yet, but it is worth the effort to learn.
I have found there is not a huge amount of documentation and some of it was difficult to obtain, but with the install of the Advanced Help module, and searching Drupal.org for some tutorials I no longer found it overwhelming.
I installed a module in the beginning called Simple Views, which saved my life. I will rate it seperately but anyone looking to use views and doesn't quite get it yet, will LOVE it.
Views is definately one module you cannot live without. Great work on this one too!
This is a required module for nearly all Drupal sites I install. It is amazingly powerful, and yes, it takes some time to learn exactly what you can do and how to do it, but it is worth it.
This module is mind-blowingly powerful. At first is may seem complicated to use but in really it's not. It's just that it can do a lot of complicated stuff and considering it complexity it's interface does a good job of allowing the administrate do some very powerful things.
This module is a true game changer in the Drupal universe and is a must-install for any serious Drupal install.
This module allows the average drupal user to take full advantage of the outstanding code that comprises the drupal core. Another of my top ten favorites. Sheer genius, shines in every way. Sure, the learning curve is a bit steep, and some aspects (such as arguments) can be a little confusing, but no one ever said reaching the summit of Mt. Everest was going to be a piece of cake. Spend some time learning this module and your site will never be the same. The 6.x version is even more spectacular. Combine it with views filter blocks and you can make magic. My hat is off to the developer of this phenom.
When I first got this module, it was hard to understand what it can actually do. After working with it now for 3 months, I can see that its a very powerful module, yet there is a steep learning curve to get the to point at which its easy for the average joe to understand.
Once its understood, its amazing what it can do; reports, lists, grid, galleries, you name it, its probably do-able. So I'd say its necessary, but be ready to learn...
This was one of the first module I had installed on my website because it was required by other modules. After a while, I found it offered the only solution to some of my problems. So I began to explore its capabilities. But it is difficult to use and I took a long time just to master the basics. My most recent use for it was for a multilingual front page and it provided a simple solution on my website:
I've used consumer-oriented databases before (e.g. FileMaker), so I know what queries, filtering, and sorts are. I'm no stranger to displaying data. It's pretty cool that you can define different "displays" (block or page, list or table) for a single "view" (collection of data). The Views module was nevertheless very difficult for me to fathom on first encounter, and I have yet to find adequate clear systematic documentation compiled in one place. Arguments, in particular, are really throwing me. Are they specified in your View definition or not? If not, when/where are they specified? How does part of a path relate to data in the database, which is what, ostensibly, you are searching, sorting, and displaying? How does an argument relate to a filter? And what is all this with $arg and %1 and %2, wildcards and sub-wildcards?
To be fair, it seems Views' UI has changed significantly in Drupal 6 (where I am starting), with the kitchen sink all thrown together on one UI page. This may make sense for Drupalistas who already know what they are doing from Drupal 5. Everything they need is now brought together in one place. Cool. But they learned Views initially using a different (more step-by-step?) UI. For me, the kitchen sink is part of my difficulty getting up to speed with this module.
But I shall persist! The consensus seems to be this is a near-core essential.
A plethora of potential Power this module may possess, for the present this poor non-professional is pretty darn pitiful... pooh.
This module is one of the most useful tools on a Drupal website. Extracting items from a database is sometimes a complicated task, but views make this process much easier. Although the UI of Views 1 is a bit hard to get used to, it is usable. And the functionality far outways this deterrent. Views 2, on the other hand is a whole new experience. It is quite easy to use, and has a lot of new features. Views 2 uses a "no page re-load" method of adding filters and arguments which makes building queries much faster. Overall, views is a great tool and almost necessary on a site of any magnitude.
Obviously Views is one of the most important modules in the Drupal-verse, and needs no introduction, but don't forget to try out Views Theme Wizard, which is packaged with it. With a few clicks you can generate a sample template that can be used as a starting point to make your View look however you like it. Using this module you can easily make your sites look nothing like the default Drupal templates (not that those are bad, it's just good to have options).
Views is a must for any drupal website that is something more than single-user blog or static content page.
You can build sortable lists of your content, random artcile blocks, list with specific filters (and you can publish filters for users) and much more with it.
I use views in near every webpage, and don't like 2 things:
* you cannot use views to make list from user and profile.module data
* interface for building views is complex and requires a lot of clicks and page reloads.
I had to add a review here because it should be right up there on the Highest Rated list :) It looks like somewhere down the line Views will be in core. Until then, it should be strongly advised that people use this module for anything more than the most simple sites.
Views is core material, no doubt. When you are starting up in Drupal, definitely install Views. Views lets you create views of of your content of all sorts. You can discriminate on numerous criteria (content type, date, a category term, etc). Combined with other modules (such as CCK) you can even show content based on your own custom fields, like "Best Deal" or "Kid's Only" for example.
You may want to install Views Bonus Pack right along with it. It contains some additional Views templates for showing grid based views or Panels based views for example. This will save you a lot of hassle when you want to show nodes (products, items, pages etc) in a columned layout.
There is also the View theme wizard option which will generate three bits of code: a template file, a PHP snippet and a CSS file ready to deploy inside your theme. This will allow you to override the LIST view type and take full control in how your view looks and what to show. Too bad this doesn't work for the other view types. Also the View theme wizard generates a separate function for each View. This will result in a bulky template.php rapidly.
Views are documented over the net extensively. No need to seek very far.
Views will get you to show data in many ways you can imagine. Taking arguments into account, Views will let you show almost anything. Views also has its boundaries, which you will run into once you get moving. Nonetheless part of your Drupal Swiss Army Knive!
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If you use any contrib modules at all, this is certainly going to be the first one you will want. I use it on all client sites.
If you have a Drupal site that has more content types than the basic content types like Blog, Forum, Page, Story then you must install views to render the contents in a coherent fashion. Not only with CCK Views is a great module in itself.
In database a view shortly is a customized representation of the data in the database similarly the views module lets you present the information you have in your Drupal site in the way you want to. The option of Page and or block view makes it very easy to show data in correct format. The page views have a URL also. Custom header, footer and menu are other great features added in view.
You can specify what fields to show and the filters make a site admins' life very easy as you can precisely show what you want to from content types to dates to anything. On top of that content display can be sorted and filters can even be exposed.
Amazing flexibility can be achieved by the arguments, for example I got the RSS for forums only (see here) using views. Custom RSS or any other feature is enabled by arguments of views. So you must use views.
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Basically a must have for 99% of Drupal sites.
I ranked it 4/5 for features since AFAIK you can only make a list of nodes (for instance it is not possible to make a list of taxonomy terms).
This module is great for quickly generating things like top ten lists or recent comment blocks. It also integrates with a number of different modules, and is actually a prerequisite for some of them.
Views has a lot of depth, and you can get into some complex territory playing with argument handling code.
Theming Views also offers a lot of possibilities, but it can be difficult for the beginner. This difficulty is somewhat offset by the inclusion of an automated code generator.
The SQL generated internally by Views is not optimized for speed. If you need ultra-high performance, you'll probably want to write a dedicated module.
Overall, Views offers a quick solution to a lot of common "I wish Drupal had this" problems, and that alone makes it worthy of your attention.
The views module is by far the most important and useful module I use on my sites. It makes combining and display a collection of nodes so easy and fast that I don't know what I'd do without it.
The only module that comes close is CCK.
I look forward to both Views and CCK being upgraded to Drupal 6.1.
If you have a block that shows posts, latest topics, most commented, or a page that shows posts, chances are you need views to do it. It gives you fine grained control to sort and define what content you wish to show. Combine this with CCK, Drupal now becomes a powerful CMS.
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