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By: Basic Drupal CCK and Views Tutorial « Future Technology

Basic Drupal CCK and Views Tutorial « Future Technology — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:46:39 +0000

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By: Mitesh

Mitesh — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:53:57 +0000

Great work Rob!!
thanks.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:13:21 +0000

great tutorial. I am learning Drupal right now, this is something I was trying to figure out. Thanks for taking the time!

By: joel

joel — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:00:44 +0000

thanks ;you explain very well and you are a very good teacher because you use

the good words at the good time et not too fast for french as me(i don’t understand english very well)

thanks one more ;i admire your work sincerely

joel

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Contribuţii la module Drupal | Sit web — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:08:27 +0000

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By: Paul Hilder

Paul Hilder — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:53:36 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial. Helped me understand CCK and Views a little more.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:09:27 +0000

Hi,
I found this screencast really well done. It helped me a lot, even if I’m using drupal 6, because you explain the logic very well.

Thanks,

Pierre

By: Cem

Cem — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:00:17 +0000

Thanks my friend this is one the best tutorials i have ever watched on the web. It really helped me to understand many things about drupal. Keep up the good work

By: Robert Safuto

Robert Safuto — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:22:02 +0000

Evan: If you’re having trouble I suggest download the video.

By: Robert Safuto

Robert Safuto — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:20:01 +0000

Neha: The link is in the post. It says, “Download” http://blip.tv/file/get/Awakenedvoice-DrupalCCKAndViewsTutorial767.mov

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:05:44 +0000

Is this video not working for anyone else? I started it last night and wanted to finish it today but I can’t.

Looked like a great tutorial I wish I could finish it.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:56:22 +0000

Great tutorial, thanks! Too bad the Views interface has changed, it’s a lot more confusing now.

By: Neha Jain

Neha Jain — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:29:37 +0000

Hi…I tried to download it but it seems that the download link is not working. Please send me the url from where I can download this. I am not able to view the video on this page because of slow internet connection so need to download it.

Thanks.

By: Don

Don — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:02:08 +0000

I both love and hate you with a passion. I love you for showing me the power and flexibility in just the tip of the iceberg with CCK and Views. I hate you for making me realize that I’ve been wasting a LOT of time coding a new drupal module that I’m now going to abandon if I can (and probably can) just use CCK to build it all.

Basically it’s a website for a baseball team. List of players, list of positions, list of opponent teams, list of games, block of X upcoming games, calendar view of games. Question is if I’ll be able to get a block that computes the record for the season. I could define a “season” as well but in this case it’s within a calendar year.

Thanks again, you’ve really opened my eyes and showed me how little of drupal I was aware of.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:11:43 +0000

An outstanding tutorial! A great content construction kit. Looking forward to viewing them all. Thanks.

By: Anand Mallik

Anand Mallik — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:58:27 +0000

Amazing video. I was going through the documentation of views+cck+content type from drupal website. But not able to decipher anything. After watching your video everything looks simple now.,

Thanks A lot

By: Robert Safuto

Robert Safuto — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:52:10 +0000

Sorry for the delay Chris. To make a long story short I have to say that I basically choose from the styles that are available. You can add some styles by adding additional views modules like Views Slideshow (http://drupal.org/project/views_slideshow) or Views Bonus (http://drupal.org/project/views_bonus).

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:26:33 +0000

Thank you for the very useful tutorial. It has helped me a lot with my website. I just have one question. How do you add a new style in views? In Views under “basic settings->style” I need some new styles for my images and forms?

By: Robert Safuto

Robert Safuto — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:49:29 +0000

You can create a table with Views Jeff. A module called Views Bonus Pack (http://drupal.org/project/views_bonus) adds the functionality in Drupal 5. I believe the option to output as a table is available directly in the Views module for Drupal 6.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:36:55 +0000

Thank you, the tutorial was quite helpful.
I must be missing something big, however.
What I want to do is create a view which shows some fields defined in CCK. I cant see any if I choose Node:Title and Node:Body is blank. For instance, suppose I wanted to list a set of employees with their job classification. I could make a content type “Employees” with fields “Name” and “job classification”. I want a table with these two fields. It seems that Views is not the way to go. Is there a good module for this?

Thanks, Jeff

By: Gopal

Gopal — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:45:59 +0000

Awesome mate! I have been searching for this for many days. Views concept got cleared for me. Really appreciate your hard work and way you explain the things.

By: Larry (AKA The Office Rat)

Larry (AKA The Office Rat) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:23:37 +0000

Very helpful. I’ve been trying to get my head around CCK and Views and this really helps. Thanks mucho.

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:09:22 +0000

Excellent! Very clear presentation and extremely useful. I donated (and by the way, I love the $2 paypal donation setup – I will easily part with $2 for each video tutorial I find useful – even if the Aussie dollar is crap at the moment!).
Thanks very much.

By: Robert Safuto

Robert Safuto — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:17:34 +0000

Nir,

There are a couple of ways to accomplish what you’re trying to do. The system will automatically record the username of the author when your content is submitted. So you shouldn’t need an extra field on the input. You could add the username as a field on the output by using the contemplate module, which allows you to create a special template for each view. In that template you can include a variable that will display the username of the author.

Rob

By: Nir

Nir — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:14:18 +0000

Great tutorial, thanks. I’m gonna try it out now.
I wondered just how I can add fields that are not going to be editable. For instance I want to add the username field that will contain the user’s ID – and I don’t want the user to be able to populate it and I want it by default to be the user’s name…
I’m gonna dig a little bit more into it.
Appreciate your tutorials,
Nir.

By: j3k

j3k — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:49:40 +0000

great tutorial! thank you very much!

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THOOR bloggt! » Blog Archive » DRUPAL 6 - meine wichtigsten Links — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:21:04 +0000

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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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Sage of Code » Blog Archive » Drupal: Creating Custom Content Types — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:29:47 +0000

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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.