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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#663300'>Brian,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#663300'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#663300'>In answer to your last question, in Drupal 6.2 a view you create
starts with “default” parameters. Then you can add various
representations to it, such as “Page” or “Block”.
If you add Page, you can set the options for when the view appears as a page.
One of those options is the URL or Path (not sure which it’s called –
but same thing). If you add a Block, you set options for when it appears
as a block. There is no URL option here, because it’s not a
page. Kind of makes sense.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#663300'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#663300'>Most of what you state below is correct... if you define an
argument it is whacked onto the end of the URL/path in order to filter the
results further. eg. define URL as example.com/view1, this add argument “node
type”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#663300'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#663300'>example.com/view1 will display the view<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#663300'>example.com/view1/story will display only nodes of type “story”
within that view.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#663300'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#663300'>At least that’s how I think it works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#663300'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#663300'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#663300'>John<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Brian Wolf [mailto:brw314@hotmail.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 5 May 2008 5:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> support@drupal.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [support] newbie views url<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>hi,
<br>
<br>
<br>
i am new to drupal in general. not sure what is meant by path or url in
views jargon. <br>
<br>
for example in the help area, they use the words path and url as follows:<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a
href="http://localhost/drupal-6.2/?q=help/views/argument"><span
style='color:#0066CC'>Arguments</span></a>, or additional parameters that
dynamically refine the view results, passed as part of the path. Adding an
argument of <em><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Node: Type</span></em>
to a node view with a path of "content", for example, dynamically
filters the displayed items by content type. In this example (shown with Clean
URLs enabled), accessing the view through the path "<em><span
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>http://www.example.com/content/page</span></em>"
displays all posts of the type "page", the path "<em><span
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>http://www.example.com/content/story</span></em>"
displays all posts of the type "story", and "<em><span
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>http://www.example.com/content</span></em>"
displays all posts regardless of type) <br>
<br>
i thought that a "view" generates a page (or
block etc) containing the list generated<br>
by the filters set in the views adminstration menu. this page will have a url
(path, etc) (??)<br>
<br>
but the way its defined here, path is an argument passed to "view" to
set the filter (??)<br>
<br>
could someone explain the diference and in, drupal 6.2, explain where to
set the URL or path in the views administration menu?<br>
<br>
thx,<br>
brian<br>
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