The+Funtionalbility+of+Views+Module


 * A chapter about Views**



The views module allows Drupal sites designers to create, manage and list the contents, and provides the great flexibility of choices for displaying those contents. The output of view is "display" and it can be added in block or page form. It is a cool feature that a single view can have multiple displays in Drupal 6.
 * Definition Of Views**

1. Normal: stores in database 2. Default: stores in code 3. Overridden Overridden views are stored only in code and database.
 * View types**

1. Arguments Arguments comes from URL and each display type may have its own source from arguments except block. Arguments can be used for any purpose, but the main function of arguments is used to filter views 2. Sort Criteria It determines what order the records are retrieved from database and displayed in. 3. Filters They are used to reduce the data set that views provides. 4. Displays The list of contents can be displayed as page, block, feed and attachment. 5. Relationships Relationships allow designer to expand the query to include objects other than the base query. In general, the relationships are often set as default, no relationships. 6. Fields Fields are the individual pieces of data being displayed. The designer creates different nodes and fields can pick up the nodes which the designer what to display on the webpage.
 * Options in views module**

1. Unformatted output 2. Grid output 3. Table output 4. List output / List summary / unformatted summary style 5. RSS output 6. View row
 * View styles**

LINKS: http://learnbythedrop.com/drop/147 http://www.drupalove.com/drupal-video/drupal-school-maintainable-image-gallery http://drupal.org/documentation/modules/views