hello.
thought the following might be useful to some people, like it was for me, it offers a step by step tutorial to producing something cool with the views module, check it out at:
that would've been the perfect answer to one of my earlier questions.
Hey laura, and Kobus, thanks for the help! and thanks for bringing about such a brain-storming discussion for drupal's usability for challanged people. keep it up, and hope to seeing something practical soon!
Regards, Mohammed al-shar' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kobus Myburgh" ITBJDM@puknet.puk.ac.za To: support@drupal.org; laura@pingv.com Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [support] block with latest 3 sticky posts
Mohammed,
If you struggle with the views module, I will help set it up for you when I get a moment. Alternatively I can write a quick SQL query in a block that will do this for you. I am not sure if the entire Views module is needed for such a small block.
Regards,
Kobus
PS: Laura, I doubt Mohammed would mind me saying this - he is blind, so Views may be a bit daunting for him. I have to take my hat off for Mohammed for trying so hard to make things work under his circumstances, and managing most of the stuff without contacting the help list. He has been using Drupal since 4.6.1 or something like that, and I have helped him a few times off-list to get some stuff done. Perhaps we should get a team together to focus specifically on usability for visually impaired users in the next version (> 5.0) of Drupal? Comments?
laura@pingv.com 10/20/2006 3:46:06 AM >>>
On Oct 19, 2006, at 6:19 PM, Mohammed Al-shar' wrote:
lora,
thank you.
but don't you think that the views module isn't easy at all? I tried it but couldn't do anything with it. I saw it as being very difficult. is there some book that explains it more? I know it's powerful.
Try taking an existing view, and clicking "clone." That way the obvious stuff is already filled in. Things to remember:
You need a page if you want people to see all your sticky posts.
You need a block, obviously.
You will want to have filters. Musts would be node is sticky, node
is published. You can add taxonomy, author, other conditions as you like. Try it out, and see what happens.
- You probably don't need to deal with arguments.
Hope this helps.
Best, Laura
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