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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The list of reasons and that are
enormous. A common one is that you get a view that does a horrible
query and bogs down your database, so you decide to alter the
query. Now you need a custom module for that, so why not go ahead
and just do a custom module for whatever it is you're trying to
produce?<br>
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I always weigh out the needs of the site I'm building and rather I
need views or not. If they want something as simple as a couple
latest nodes from X type in a block, then I'll just do a quick,
custom module. Why put all the weight of views in there, for
something I can do in a couple dozen lines of code? But if I
detect that this is going to be a client that wants to constantly
make changes and that, then I'll go ahead and throw views in
there. Having said that, this part basically becomes moot in
Drupal 8, since views is in core.<br>
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My best advice is look at the task at hand. If you're going to
need a lot of custom views, then go ahead and use views. If you
only need a couple of simple blocks, then Views is overkill, so
long as you don't plan on changing things around a lot later. Of
course if you do plan on changing things around, then you can
covert your custom blocks to views relatively easy.<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Jamie Holly
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On 4/18/2014 3:46 PM, Drupal wrote:<br>
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<div>You're right. Views_UI is not enabled. :-)</div>
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<div>Could you please elaborate a little bit more about the
"cases"? :-)</div>
<div>What do you use and why? If you use both, when you use
Views, when you build a module?</div>
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<div>Hi to all,
<div>There is a website i nD7 handed over to
me to continue to maintain. According what
I saw in the admin area, looks like the
previous admin was using modules rather
than views for blocks and pages. What
confused me is the view module is
installed and activated but I can't see
Views on the Structure page?!?</div>
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<div>So, I would like to hear here
(different) opinion about Vews vs modules.</div>
<div>I found this, very helpful page <a
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href="https://drupal.org/node/904120">https://drupal.org/node/904120</a> and
this one <a moz-do-not-send="true"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="https://drupal.org/node/242311">https://drupal.org/node/242311</a> and
I think I pretty got a picture, but I
would like some more opinions.</div>
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