Views

I recently needed to create a view of type "Term" that displayed taxonomy terms and their description for a certain vocabulary.

The setup for that was quite simple

• Create a view of type "Term"
• Add an argument of Vocabulary ID
• Add a field of  "Term Name" and another of "Term Description"
• Add a filter of "Vocabulary" and select the vocabularies you want to restrict to

This gives a nice simple view of all terms belonging to a single vocabulary when the vocabulary id is passed as an argument.

Recently, due to Views lack of ability to OR it's filters together and due to some serious constraints in relation to arguments and relationships, I found myself needing to figure out how to rewrite the SQL of a Drupal view so that I could get the records that I needed.

It seems like there are two ways to do this. You can either rewrite the SQL directly, or try to hack the query object that views provides.

A quick Google search and I ended up on Drupal.org

I'm working on a site right now that has a Publications content type, which in turn has a multiple value CCK text field for Author. If more than one author was input I needed them to display as a comma separated list in a view. How do you go about modifying this? My first stop was the theming info link in Views, and that helped me narrow it down to a template file to use, views-view-field.tpl.php().

As Melanie mentioned, we just launched a site for Pivot Legal, and a successful launch it was too. I thought I'd take a moment to give a quick breakdown of some of the tricks and wizardry we incorporated on that site.

We've come across an issue quite a few times during the development/build of a site where a client wants to include some content above or below a view and wants to have the ability to edit that content. There are a number of ways to achieve this functionality: