[support] Node Items In Block

[Bill Fitzgerald]

Hello, Steve,

As others have pointed out, you have two viable options here:

1. via the theming layer, override the node display
2. using views, create a view that highlights the fields/data you want, 
and display it in a block alongside the node. You'd need to set an 
argument that grabbed the nid via the URL

Using the view would give the end user more options over time; that may 
or may not be a good thing, depending on the context ;)

Cheers,

Bill

On 5/30/10 8:59 PM, Steve Edwards wrote:
> I would like to achieve the functionality shown in this theme at http://www.styleshout.com/templates/preview/CoolBlue10/index.html?PHPSESSID=52698ce79756b9e4fcc38e7af2b1ee4f in a view where you have the main node contents in the main column, and then other items (such as user name, post date, taxonomy terms, etc.) in a block on the side.  I need to do have this block both for each item in the view that lists all of the nodes, and also for the node display.  Is this only possible with panels, or are there other ways to do it?  I found the views_attachment_block module, but it will only attach the blocks list page, and won't work for the node display, and I'm not sure how I could get one block to line up with its respective node in Panels, since you usually just list the entire view in a pane, and can't repeat panes in a pattern.
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> Any suggestions welcome. I'm sure there's a way to do it; it's just not coming to my mind.
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> Thanks.
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> Steve
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