Comments on: Drupal CCK and Views Tutorial

By: j3k

j3k — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:49:40 +0000

great tutorial! thank you very much!

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By: apeee

apeee — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:10:08 +0000

This is “THE BEST” tutorial that I’ve ever seen for durpal. CCK+Views always scared me away and I always avoided using them. But since with my new website I had to have some facility which can only be implemented by CCK+Views this video podcast has been very helpful.

I would like if you make advanced CCK+Views video podcast. And please, Panels video podcast too.

Thanks.

By: Robert Safuto

Robert Safuto — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:36:55 +0000

I’m glad that the tutorial could be of use. You can get more drupal learning from me at http://learnbythedrop.com.

By: ilovefaerytales

ilovefaerytales — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:17:37 +0000

This tutorial is awesome! I’m lost as to how to make use of (and have more control over) Drupal and have stumbled upon this site…How fortunate!

Again, thanks for taking the time to create this (and more, I hope) and share it with the rest of us!

By: jcwatson11

jcwatson11 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:24:42 +0000

Thank you!! This tutorial was exactly what I needed to get me started with how to use CCK and tie it into a view. Thank you Thank you Thank you!

By: Lewis G

Lewis G — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:35:40 +0000

Excellent tutorial. Where’s the Adsense though? That’s how I vote up a page (besides Stumble/Digg).

By: Geoff Palin

Geoff Palin — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:36:35 +0000

Thanks for this great tutorial, The CCK and Views come in handy big time if you are using the job search module for drupal 5.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:16:47 +0000

Just getting into Drupal and found this tutorial very interesting. Can’t wait to try it out! Looking forward to viewing more of your tutorials. Thanks!

By: xesco

xesco — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:10:13 +0000

Great Video. Simple and usefull.
Thanks.

By: Robert Safuto

Robert Safuto — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:53:38 +0000

Lian: The video is working. Could be a problem with your flash version. You may want to try downloading the Quicktime version.

By: am

am — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:47:02 +0000

gracias, gracias, gracias, gracias!
i loved it! really useful! :))))

By: Li an

Li an — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:51:54 +0000

Is it just me or the movie just don’t work ?

By: Libor Fikr

Libor Fikr — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:46:46 +0000

Hello from Czech Republic and very very thanks fot this tutorial who help me with cck and views.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:48:44 +0000

Great Tutorial. Thanks!

By: Blowski

Blowski — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:51:48 +0000

I’ll add my praise to the above - I’ve read two books, and watched 3 other videos, and this the first time anything in Drupal has actually made sense.

Thanks!

By: Robert Safuto

Robert Safuto — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:25:39 +0000

I just wanted to pop in to say thanks to the people who have taken the time to comment, donate or link to this tutorial. Thank you all

Rob Safuto

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:44:05 +0000

Anybody who spends this much time on contributing to the community deserves a $2 donation (tip?!) in my book

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By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:44:23 +0000

Tnx for great tutorial

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:35:23 +0000

Great video - it’s really cleared up how CCK and views hang together. This is the kind of independent support that made me choose Drupal as a platform in the first place - thanks Robert.

By: Robert Safuto

Robert Safuto — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:55:36 +0000

Paul: I’m not familiar with the nodereference module but there are many different ways to get things done in Drupal. My approach would be to include the list of related musical pieces on a block in the sidebar. In order for that to work I would create a category called ‘composers’ and make the field mandatory for both the composer and the musical piece. That category would tie the two nodes together and allow you to create a block view that you could display only when the node type being viewed is a composer.

You could also do this using a nodereference field, although I haven’t tried that before.

I don’t have an exact answer for the best way to do this so I recommend that you do a little research. I found a couple of discussions at http://drupal.org/node/82035 and http://drupal.org/node/25974 that can help. Then try a couple of things to see what works for you.

I do know that I would place the links to the musical pieces in a block rather than try to tie them into a node.

Rob

By: gemp

gemp — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:59:19 +0000

It’s quite simple really (sic).

I created a CCK for Composers, Mozart, Back, etc. with their names, dates, bio…

Then I created a CCK for Musical pieces describing symphonies, operas, etc. Of course, each musical piece was composed by someone, so I made a Node Reference of the Composers’ CCK to get the name of the relevant composer. Therefore in the Musical pieces’ fields I have a popup with which I can attribute the piece choosing from available Composers.

Now on the Composer’s node the cool thing would be to list his own Musical pieces as documented in the other CCK… That’s where I was last week.

Now I installed so many plugins on the test database that I don’t actually know which ones are relevant, but I guess what does the trick is Node Referrer. It allows you, in the Composers’ CCK to add a Referring Node Type field pointing to the Musical pieces with a Referring field of the Referenced Composer. Voilà.

You may also need the plugin Contemplate to theme it, especially if there’s more than one reference to display.

Hope I was clear, because now I’d really like a tutorial to understand what I just typed

Thanks again, Robert.

By: dom

dom — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:23:17 +0000

Thanks. Great tutorial.

By: Robert Safuto

Robert Safuto — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:40:44 +0000

gemp: I’m not understanding exactly what’s happening when you say,
“I cannot manage to display all composer’s musical pieces with a View on the composer’s page…” Is the composer’s page a view in itself? Or is the composer’s page a static page? I might be able to help if I understood the relationship between the composer’s page and the musical pieces.

By: gemp

gemp — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:06:40 +0000

Very clean and explicit tutorial !

It allowed me to create a database of classical composers and one of pieces of music, with a list to choose its composer.

But I’ve been searching for days now and I cannot manage to display all composer’s musical pieces with a View on the composer’s page… The filter eludes me totally.

By: a

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:06:24 +0000

Thanks to your video tutorial, I finally understand CCK (which I just failed to earlier given its complexity) and views further.

By: Jim Skowyra

Jim Skowyra — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:24:41 +0000

An outstanding tutorial! Looking forward to viewing them all. Thanks.

Hope to see you at DrupalCon in Boston coming up in March.

By: Simon Wilkes

Simon Wilkes — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:04:37 +0000

Brilliant tutorial Rob.

Thanks for posting it. You’ve saved me hours trying to figure this out. You shall be rewarded. Keep up the good work.

Cheers, Simon.

By: Robert Safuto

Robert Safuto — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:17:50 +0000

I’m glad that helped Mark. Thanks for your generous donation and Happy New Year!

By: Mark Krynsky

Mark Krynsky — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:09:12 +0000

Robert, thanks so much for the info. Not sure how that slipped under my nose but it was exactly what I needed to do. Donation sent. Keep up the great work and I look forward to following your videos.

Mark

By: Robert Safuto

Robert Safuto — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:49:22 +0000

You can display one field if you select a view type of ‘list view’ and then specify the field you want to display in the ‘fields’ section. The drop down list in that section should have every cck field you have created. Select only the field you want and your view should only list those values.

By: Mark Krynsky

Mark Krynsky — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:17:53 +0000

Great job on this tutorial. What I was really hoping to learn though was how to create a custom “view type” to only display a selected CCK field I created for a specific content type.

In your tutorial I saw that you have many additional views listed in your dropdown. I have yet to find any good information on how to do this and would think it would be helpful to others as well.

Continue the great work!

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By: Robert Safuto

Robert Safuto — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:19:40 +0000

You could create a field called ‘genre’ as a list and then when you create the view you could filter each view based on the genre. This would allow you to have a page and RSS feed for each genre.

You could also do this using taxonomy and assign that taxonomy to that content type.

Since you can do it each way I think the approach comes down to personal preference. The advantage of the view is that it allows you to have more flexibility on how you display the content.

By: Ari

Ari — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:29:52 +0000

Very good tutorial, thanks.
Quick question:

What if you wanted to add a “Genre” field, and organize shows by genre? Should this be done through taxonomy by creating a Genre vocab, or should an extra field called “Genre” be added to the custom “show” content type?

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By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:14:49 +0000

I really appreciate these videos! You really have a knack for explaining drupal.

Can I please recommend a tutorial on the above mentioned “panels” module? Also, anything on templating would be great.

Thank you, and you definitely earned my $2

By: Sundar

Sundar — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:08:08 +0000

This was an excellent tutorial. Although I knew most of it, I really wish I had run into it before I struggled with CCK! FWIW, the only thing that I found to be slightly lacking (but it’s the topic of maybe a different tutorial) is how to implement searches within CCK views.

By: gb

gb — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:00:52 +0000

Nice and usefull !
Merci.

By: Robert Safuto

Robert Safuto — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:03:54 +0000

The Quicktime version is a higher quality version of the screencast. A flash version of all the lessons can be found on the Lesson Player page.

By: darek

darek — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:00:59 +0000

Thanks for the great tutorial, but why not link to the flash vid? http://blip.tv/file/322542/

By: Jean

Jean — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:20:42 +0000

A great tutorial!

Many thanks for your fantastic support.

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By: jinendra

jinendra — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:18:23 +0000

Hi! We are implementing Drupal for our campus site, and I find your tutorials very helpful as I am learning Drupal. Thanks.

By: PerryManson

PerryManson — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:45:57 +0000

Very useful tutorial. Thanks a lot.

By: loic

loic — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:07:17 +0000

Thanks indeed for this screencast, what a tutorial!
Keep on the great work!

By: raf

raf — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:55:48 +0000

great, simply great man.
encore félicitations, continuez, we love it.
je suis esbaudi par tant de clarté.

raf