[support] block with latest 3 sticky posts

[Mohammed Al-shar']

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:

http://drupal.org/node/63230

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 at puknet.puk.ac.za>
To: <support at drupal.org>; <laura at 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 at 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:
>
> 1) You need a page if you want people to see all your sticky posts.
>
> 2) You need a block, obviously.
>
> 3) 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.
>
> 4) You probably don't need to deal with arguments.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Best,
> Laura
>
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