Brian,

In answer to your last question, in Drupal 6.2 a view you create starts with "default" parameters. Then you can add various representations to it, such as "Page" or "Block". If you add Page, you can set the options for when the view appears as a page. One of those options is the URL or Path (not sure which it's called - but same thing). If you add a Block, you set options for when it appears as a block. There is no URL option here, because it's not a page. Kind of makes sense.

Most of what you state below is correct... if you define an argument it is whacked onto the end of the URL/path in order to filter the results further. eg. define URL as example.com/view1, this add argument "node type".

example.com/view1 will display the view

example.com/view1/story will display only nodes of type "story" within that view.

At least that's how I think it works.

Regards,

John

From: Brian Wolf [mailto:brw314@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, 5 May 2008 5:29 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] newbie views url

hi,

i am new to drupal in general. not sure what is meant by path or url in views jargon.

for example in the help area, they use the words path and url as follows:

. http://localhost/drupal-6.2/?q=help/views/argument Arguments, or additional parameters that dynamically refine the view results, passed as part of the path. Adding an argument of Node: Type to a node view with a path of "content", for example, dynamically filters the displayed items by content type. In this example (shown with Clean URLs enabled), accessing the view through the path "http://www.example.com/content/page" displays all posts of the type "page", the path "http://www.example.com/content/story" displays all posts of the type "story", and "http://www.example.com/content" displays all posts regardless of type)

i thought that a "view" generates a page (or block etc) containing the list generated by the filters set in the views adminstration menu. this page will have a url (path, etc) (??)

but the way its defined here, path is an argument passed to "view" to set the filter (??)

could someone explain the diference and in, drupal 6.2, explain where to set the URL or path in the views administration menu?

thx, brian

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