New features in Views 2 (screencast)

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!!!!

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

Many thanks, it is very helpful.

I wish I had watched this walk-through before trying out myself for hours!

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 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, 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 :)

Greggles,

This is a great video and I appreciate the hard work you put into it!

Thanks, am preparing a screencast in Spanish for this topic and your video is a very good example to inspire me.

Views 2 is great, thank you for the tutorial.

Great screencast. That was a very thorough overview of Views 2. The 34 minute vid was the perfect length. You covered a lot in that period of time. Thanks.

I like Views 2, so many cool features !

Am I to understand that images are not supported in Views? I have a field of book covers in one of my content type: field_covers. It doesn't show up in views filters or fields.

It works fine here and I am more than happy to watch the screencast.

Thanks for the great overview and taking the time to put it into the easy to digest video format.
I'm glad I decided to take a break to watch this as I was just beginning to hit my breaking point while trying out these new modules.

Don't listen to the guy who said that a 34 minute video is too long. Nothing is too long if it is useful. Good content will always be king.

Thanks for saving my sanity,

The time duration was seeming a hindrance but this is worth watching. Appreciate the effort that went into the video . You need to watch it twice for better understanding and you will be able to tap the potential your site can have. Now who wouldnt want more of drupal.

This is one thing that I haven't been able to really learn yet. Just haven't had the time. It's awesome that I stumbled on the videos. I'm sure that they will definitely speed up my learning curve. Thanks a million!