This screencast provides a 34 minute overview of the new features that Views 2 offers. This video shows off not all the new features, but it is a good starting point if you want to learn how to use Views 2.
Written and recorded by Greg Knaddison.
New features in Views 2
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Greggles,
This is a great video and I appreciate the hard work you put into it!
Thanks for making this, Views 2 is a great modules, but also complex so this is very helpful.
Some constructive criticism:
- 34 minutes is a long time, a more effective and compact would mean more people would have time to watch it.
- Think about which parts of your script is really necessary. For example, is the discussion of the pros of the popup help window really necessary?
- Rehearse it before recording it to make it more spot on, less looking around.
- Cut out unnecessary pauses and mistakes (like having to search in-page etc).
Hi, I watched the screencast and have read everything I can find but I am still stumped.
I am trying to create a view to show other articles by the same author of any current "Book Page".
When I look at the args list I see things like "User: UID" and "Comment: Author" but none seem to work for me. User sounds like current logged in user, and "Comment" sounds like the author of a comment not a Node. Is either of them the Node (book page) author?
No matter what I do I keep getting all other book pages listed in my view un-restricted by author.
Which argument (variable) is the author of the current node? Would it be possible to post a new snippet updated for V2?
Thanks for the great module, i'd love to get it to work for me :)
Just wanted to say: thank you (again)!
I think that says it all....
thanks for taking the extra time to contribute this -
and thanks also for speaking in a language the novice can understand!
Hi Greg,
Thanks for the screencast. I'm still a bit confused. It seems like ALL views must have certain 'attributes' (for lack of a better word)....but other attributes are optional. Can you tell us what is required to get a View up and running, and what is optional?
Thanks again,
kwg
Thank you for your introduction to views 2.. I just got to work on some views today and it worked out brilliantly. What would be nice now is some image support for cck for drupal 6!
Awesome video, thanks greggles! :)
One little thing I was hoping you'd cover in full detail was Views 2's ability to override the default display (e.g. adding completely different filters, arguments, etc to different displays within a single View). I had trouble figuring this out when initially playing with Views 2 to see how everything worked, and only finally learned how to do this after adding Advanced Help module (which is completely amazing) and found that I had to click the actual link of the section of the display (e.g. Filters in my Display2, etc), and click the Override button that is then displayed. Before figuring this out I was consistently frustrated seeing filters/arguments/etc appear in Displays I didn't intend them to show up in. After clicking Override in the right spot though, all worked as expected.
Anyhow, just wanted to mention that, as it was pretty much the only aspect of Views 2 so far that I haven't been able to easily discover intuitively. Maybe in another lesson you could cover that for people.
Again, thanks for the terrific screencast! :)
- David
I wish I had watched this walk-through before trying out myself for hours!
great! thank you!
Many thanks, it is very helpful.
Just got your email for your latest screencast. What never fails to surprise me is the number of "web-geniuses" putting out all kinds of tutorials and information about open-source/libre projects, yet can't be bothered to produce it in a format compatible with standard open/free operating systems. -Why not put these out in an ogg-vorbis format so those people who chose not to use the proprietary formats can watch them too? Drupal is a free open-source application, maybe honor that by using an equally free format for your tutorials. I don't think that wanting to view these kinds of info-mercials using only out-of-the-box software available on a popular OS like Ubuntu, or Debian is asking to much. Do You?
Thanks - Brad
Hello Brad,
what you say is justifiable. I wanted to use MP4, but we use Camtasia to produce the videos (it is closed source Windows-only application...). And it cannot produce to MP4, but the next version will be able to produce MP4.
Ogg - I could convert the final video into ogg, but it would lower the quality. So do you want to watch the video in ogg in lower quality, just because it is open format?
(Show me an open source screen recorder, which is equal to Camtasia - I was unable to find a good one, which is good for my needs)
Note that you can download this video in FLV format here. Then you can watch this file with the open source VLC player. Or you cannot watch the video in FLV format at all?
re: ... download this video in FLV format ...
thanks, for me this is a fine format
thanks for the videos so far and looking forward to the complete box.
Hi Greg,
This is a great overview of a very impressive module. Thanks!
I am a bit concerned about the beta module size. The code has grown enormously since Views 1, as might be expected given the functionality. Are tuning efforts underway? Could you comment on the impact Views 2 may have on large and/or busy sites? Any tips for managing the overhead?
Thanks, Alan
Well, that's hard to say. At this point I don't think anyone has a high traffic site that is using Views2. So...yeah...there's no way to know for sure.
However, assuming that code size = slow performance is dangerous. As far as I know Earl has included lots of ideas for improving performance into Views2 and I think we should expect it to perform well.
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Since this video was produced, Views 2 is now providing some performancing metrics on each view so you can have some idea what, exactly, each view does to your performance. You can make your decisions based upon that.
Right now, Views 2 does perform slightly less well than Views 1, but that's because I haven't implemented the caching solutions, so some of the things that Views 1 would have cached won't be in 2, at least not yet. That's till planned, though.
Any Views 2 information that we don't have to dig up for ourselves at this stage is good work in my book, but this is another really helpful video guys, thanks! :)
Nik
Hi Greg,
great effort and although I don´t know how I made it on to this Drupal tutorial video mailing list I´m happy to be on it. Great work!!!!
Mastering drupal video tutorial will be excellent for me.. thank you!
Sorry Greg...but couldnt view the screen cast...I went to http://www.masteringdrupal.com/screencast/new-features-in-views2/play but the video player didnt appear..only the link back to masteringdrupal.com was visible in that page.I will try later.
Do you have the latest Flash player?
Here is an alternative location if the above did not work, but it is only 640x480.
Looks like Views 2 has some really nice features.
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