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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Thanks Dave. I’ll look into those two references.<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>"Metzler, David" <<a href="metzlerd@evergreen.edu">metzlerd@evergreen.edu</a>><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B><<a href="support@drupal.org">support@drupal.org</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:12:25 -0700<BR>
<B>To: </B><<a href="support@drupal.org">support@drupal.org</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [support] Module created tables in Views?<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>In order for views to deal with data in custom tables, you need to provide support for it by writing special hooks into your module. If you want to learn to do this there’s a link to the api documentation on the views project page. <BR>
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If you want to do just do displays/reporting against raw tables in your site, you could also check out the forena project. It’s not as polished as views for rolling stuff out to end users, but is pretty good for developers familiar with writing sql. <BR>
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Dave <BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>From:</B> <a href="support-bounces@drupal.org">support-bounces@drupal.org</a> [<a href="mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org">mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org</a>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Alex Adams<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 24, 2011 2:19 PM<BR>
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<B>Subject:</B> [support] Module created tables in Views?<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Can Views handle tables in the default database that are created and used by modules?<BR>
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I’ve just tried to create a View to do just that, but nothing appears that’s not a custom field to be used by a node type.<BR>
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Am I going to have to do this in the module?<BR>
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Drupal 7 by the way.<BR>
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Thanks in advance,<BR>
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A2 Technology Partners, Inc.<BR>
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