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Views UI helper for huge views

Dec
03

While working on two sites with huge lists of fields in views, I threw together the views_ui_tamer module to make life just a bit easier.

The module will probably not make it to drupal.org, but there is a patch here: http://drupal.org/node/981094

This should work for views 2 and 3.

views_ui_tamer adds two ease-of-use features to the views ui.

1. The jquery quicksearch plugin is used to filter checkbox options in the add_item_form. This lets you quickly find a field, argument, filter, etc to add.

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Bypass views import validation, or How to import a broken view

Nov
14

Let's say you're not thinking too clearly after renaming about 40 cck fields used in a view. The view is now broken and rather than working through the views ui you decide to try to fix them in the export code. So you test out a change on one field, delete the original view and import.

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Flag lists released

Sep
22

I've just released the initial version of Flag lists, a flag module add-on that lets normal users create unlimited "personal" flags. The module is in early development with plenty to do, but it works. Thanks to quicksketch for his help.

See the project page for more info: http://drupal.org/project/flag_lists

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Theme views search results just like core

Jul
26

The views module is often used in place of or in addition to Drupal's core search module or other search modules when more control is required. By adding exposed filters, a site's visitors can narrow a search by the value of any field and many node object values.

The results can quickly be themed to highlight the search keys just like core search.

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Add a views display as a tab to a forum listing.

May
12

I've been building the community pages for a client's site where one of the most popular areas is the forum. The design called for the forum listing to be the default menu tab with a second tab for searching the forum. I wanted to use a view with an exposed filter to search the site index and limit the results to this specific forum.

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User profile tabs mélange

Apr
07

Drupal's profile module is basic, but sometimes it's just right for the job. You can add categories that appear as tabs when you edit your profile, and you can add a variety of basic fields to the categories.

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Fuzzy Search now with fuzzy misspelling corrections

Mar
25

Using the Fuzzy Search module, misspelled search keywords now highlight the correctly spelled word in the text. Usually. It is fuzzy after all.

This is currently in the dev version only.

You can set the accuracy by choosing a minimum spelling score from 0 to 100, where 100 means no misspellings are highlighted. You do not need to reindex when you change this setting.

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Fuzzy search module ported to Drupal 6

Mar
07

I've just released a Drupal 6 version of the Fuzzy Search module. The module works independently of Drupal's core search, using its own index and settings.

Fuzzy means that it will return partial matches. If you search for treat, it would match treatise, treatment and treating. It also sorts results based on how accurate the match is. Treat would sore higher than treatment, becase treat matches the full keyword in your search.

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Illegal choice error in Views exposed filter of user reference field using a view of Organic Groups group members

Feb
15

Wow, how is that headline for a bunch of Drupal gobbledygook jargon?

To break it down, I have a content type with a cck user reference field.

That field's options are populated by the results of a view.

That view builds a list of users who belong to the same Organic group as the active user. It has a argument that supplies the user's group by default. That works fine because users can only belong to one group on this site.

But anonymous users don't belong to groups, so no results are returned.

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Adding a group chat to Drupal

Feb
05

I was recently asked to add a chat module to the community section of the website of a major disease research foundation. I had built the site as a subcontractor for one of my main clients.

We started looking at Drupal native chat modules, and followed this routine:

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