[support] Help with Views

[Shai Gluskin]

Hi Adam (and all...),

I think you are confusing nodes and views. Drupal contributes to that
confusion because Views doesn't ship with Drupal, but the default home page
is a kind of built-in/hard-coded view that you can't edit.

Is this the page you want to have updates added to?
http://www.jsjenks.org/?q=content/hsa-administration.

Many ways you can do this, but here is one:


   1. Create a new view called "Administration news"
   2. Add a "block" display to it.
   3. Row style: fields
   4. Go to fields section and add (+)
   5. Choose Title, and then delete the label for it
   6. Filter: you have to make the view only select the admin news. You need
   to use taxonomy or a node type or something else so that the view only pulls
   what you want it to pull
   7. Filter: node => published => yes (you need to make sure draft articles
   aren't displayed... views doesn't do this by default, you have to set a
   filter)
   8. Go to administer blocks at: admin/build/block/list (make sure you are
   administering the blocks for the active theme)
   9. Find the block you just created using views in the "Disabled" section
   10. Move it to the left sidebar and click save changes at bottom
   11. Click on "configure" for that same block on the blocks admin page
   12. Make the choice, "Show on only the listed pages" and paste in
   "content/hsa-administration" or maybe "?q=content/hsa-administration" (I use
   clean URLs ALWAYS, and you should too!, [?])


Variations are you could put the block in "content bottom" and use "teasers"
in the "node" "row style". But then the node content for that page should be
shorter or people won't see the new stuff.

Or you could get rid of that node all together and assign the a View "Page"
to that same path. Any introductory text you could poot in the view
"header".

Good luck,

Shai




On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Adam Eyring <adameyring at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Shai,
> Thanks for your reply. I was familiar with that route, but it seems that I
> have a parent page that is preventing additions to it. If you look at the
> HSA Updates tab of www.jsjenks.org, you can see it has administrative info
> on it, but I can't add to it like a blog so the newest entry goes on top.
> If
> you look at the home page, you can see that we're adding current info at
> least weekly like a blog. Is there a lock or something that needs to be
> configured so a tab will take new pages without using the edit function?
> I've heard it has to do with Views, but it's confusing how the Views work.
> Thanks.
> Adam
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shai Gluskin" <shai at content2zero.com>
> To: <support at drupal.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 11:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [support] Help with Views
>
>
> > Hi Adam,
> >
> > Welcome to Drupal.
> >
> > As you get more experience you'll find Views to be awesome. But now get
> > some experience with Drupal basics. And you don't need Views to do what
> > you want.
> >
> > In case you haven't figured it out yet, you don't need the blog module to
> > do a blog. The blog module is for a multiple-user blog.
> >
> > Just go to example.com/node/add/article (or example.com/node/add/storyfor
> > Drupal 6) to create your post. Remember to click save at the bottom after
> > adding your content.
> >
> > For your second post, go back to the same spot:
> > example.com/node/add/article. Put in your content and click save.
> >
> > Go to the home page and you'll see both posts with the second one
> > displaying first.
> >
> > In the examples above, replace "example.com" with the base URL of your
> web
> > site.
> >
> > Let us know how it goes.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Shai Gluskin
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Feb 4, 2011, at 10:59 PM, Adam Eyring <adameyring at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm having trouble understanding how to configure an existing Drupal
> site
> >> so that it's easy to post to one tab like a blog. Right now, the only
> way
> >> it works is to edit an existing post to update the info. I'm told it has
> >> to do with Views, but I tried one tutorial and it's still confusing.
> >> Where can I find a good tutorial or is there a simple change in a
> setting
> >> I have to make?
> >> Thanks.
> >> Adam
> >> --
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