Drupal is fast growing, but not everything has been coded and standardized yet. Everyone now a days is pushing it to become a full-blown application platform, beyond just a fancy version of wordpress...
So I'm sure you will find a lot of things that are missing as you gain experience. You can also contribute in the areas that are missing.
If you want to request features, you must do so on the issue forum of the module you are discussing, in this case: Views. Merlin of Chaos is quite responsive [thee authority on Views]
If you can find code to refresh just a part of the page, then you can integrate this into Drupal. AJAX comes to mind...
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
On 2010/04/22, at 11:03, sebastian wrote:
You can address this with javascript, just figure out the code [google it] and then load that code on the appropriate pages.
Thank you for your response. I thought about it but loading that to a block and/or a view node is what I couldn't figure out. I can't refresh entire page automatically. That would annoy my students. I was under the impression auto update on Facebook isn't page refresh, or is it?
Views comes with Recent Posts. I'd had thought it would be a popular demand to have it automatically updated without waiting for user to refresh. 'block_refresh' module author seems to be working on 6.x compatible module. I was a little surprised that is the only module on the horizon I could find.
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- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
I need a views page and a views block refresh every minute. One is a page of the list of the students who has logged in. The other is a block which shows the list of private messages sent from my students. Right now, I am manually refreshing, which I wish to be automatically updated a la Facebook.
I have checked several modules such as refresh, block_refresh, ajax_views_refresh, but none of them seems to work for my need.
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- Hiro