[support] Have I planned this all wrong?

[Metzler, David]

Yes, or pretty much anything you can think of. Lists of Poems that are
not published.   List of poems that are of category X.   Block
containing new poems that a user (or you) haven't read.   
 
You define sort order,  filter criteria, who you want to be able to see
the list, etc. Which fields to include, which fields to sort on etc. 
 
Dave

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Bruce Whealton
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 6:21 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Have I planned this all wrong?


Are you meaning by List of nodes, a list of specific content types,
e.g. story, page, and my additional node that I'll create, poem?

Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote:

	Views: http://drupal.org/project/views
	
	Awesome module. It lets you custom-build a list of nodes
according to a wide 
	range of configurable parameters. 
	
	CCK: http://drupal.org/project/cck
	
	Drupal 5+ includes the ability to create new "basic" node types
through the 
	admin. A basic node type has a title and a body (body is
disableable.) CCK 
	lets you add additional fields to any given node type. Those
fields are 
	provided by separate, dedicated modules. The CCK package
includes several 
	(textfield, number, nodereference, etc.), and there's a huge
number of others 
	available in contrib. 
	
	The usually best way to map out the site is to first decide what
your node 
	types look like, conceptually. Then figure out the fields they
need. Then 
	set those up using CCK. Then determine what lists of nodes
you'll want, and 
	build those using Views. At least that's the usual method I use.
:-)
	
	On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Bruce Whealton wrote:
	> I've heard again about Views. What are Views? Is that
	> one specific contributed module? When would one use that?
	> Thanks,
	> Bruce
	>
	> Jason Flatt wrote:
	>
	> On Monday 28 May 2007 23:07:37 A-NO-NE Music wrote:
	> > My main section "ABOUT" contains:
	> > -My BIO
	> > -My Discography
	> > -- As a Leader
	> > -- As a Supporting Musician
	> > -My show schedule
	> > -Video Clips
	> > -Audio Clips
	> > -The list of musicians who plays for my shows (present/past)
	> >
	> > I did this by creating custom content types to each of them.
After many
	> > days of trial and error, they all shows up as desired using
Views.
	> > However, as I moved onto other section, such as my jazz
theory section,
	> > where I used Book, I realized if I should had done all the
"ABOUT"
	> > section in Book. The main reasons are:
	> > - Book provides "previous" and "next" node hyperlink at the
bottom
	> > - Book provides summarized front page
	> > For example, I couldn't figure out how to create a View just
to list the
	> > titles of all the subsections, like Book provides.
	> >
	> > If I want to convert all the "ABOUT" subsections to a Book,
can it be
	> > done? I couldn't find it how. Searching at Drupal site but
to no avail
	> > so far.
	>
	> If you have the book module enabled, you should be able to
integrate the
	> pages into a book by simply going to the "Outline" tab of each
node and
	> placing it somewhere into the hierarchy.
	>
	>
	> --
	> Jason Flatt
	> http://www.oadaeh.net/
	> Father of Six: http://www.flattfamily.com/ (Joseph, 14;
Cramer, 12; Travis,
	> 10; Angela; Harry, 7; and William, 12:04 am, 12-29-2005)
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