You would have to write a views integration module to do this (expose the data) to your module. Normally I’d point you to the views 3 api documentation, but that doesn’t appear to have been written yet. If you’re interested in this approach you might try filing a support request asking how different the views 3 api is from the views 2 api which is documented.   

 

You might also take a look at project forena, which is written as a more general report writing engine. 

 

FULL DISCLOSURE:
I’m the maintainer of the forena module.

 


From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Wipe_Out
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 3:33 PM
To: support@drupal.org
Subject: [support] Accessing non-drupal tables with Views?

 

Hi,

 

I have a Drupal7 site that shares a database with another application.. I would like to use views to publish data from the applications tables to users..

 

Anyone have any ideas how to do this??

 

I have searched the internet but not found anything.. Certainly nothing for D7..

 

TIA