[views] browsing module

[peter]

Views is a very flexible module. This can be used as a replacement of the WLE's browsing functionality. A module should provide the following:

• default content type 'video' coded in the module
• one view with multiple displays such as a page, block and RSS feed
• view exported and made available in module

• view should contain a grid, titel, still, sorting on dat

[dpovshed]

Colleagues,

I am half way done with this. Do you have any special requirements about theming this view? Shall I mimic Peter F. browser, do nothing and leave default or just pass it to our designer to feed his creativity? ;)

Dennis

[peter]

Dennis,

I expect the following:

- a page view with a grid (for example 3 x 3)
- a pager
- every item in the grid should be a title + still

The reason that date, duration and author are not added is because:
- a administrator of Drupal can add these field him self by cloning the view and adding these fields (and more) to his liking.
- the field duration is technical metadata that is availalbe with a mediafile. There will be a seperate ticket to include the technical metadata as CCK-fields. This way the administrator is able to enrich the view with the technical metadata fields of his liking.

About theming: I think the default grid view will do. Maybe a little bit of theming is needed to correct issues such as long titles in the grid, alignment of the stills. I do not expect a lot of css-expertise is needed.

[peter]

I have tested the module as an end-user and the following I have discovered:

- <not done> default content type 'video' coded in the module
- <almost done> one view with multiple displays such as a page, block and RSS feed
- <done> view exported and made available in module

Currently when I install the view in a fresh Drupal installation then the view will not work because of missing handlers/fields. It misses CCK fields. As mentioned in this thread the metadata CCK fields will be made available in a different ticket #417/#418.

So it is important to stick to simple fields such as title and the still that is available from emfield module. For the view it is also necessary to filter on "node.type == '<name nodetype>'". This is the reason we need to define a default node type in the module using hook_node_info ( http://drupal.org/node/231019)

[dpovshed]

Peter, creation of node type I made in a separate module, called 'mediamosa_videocontent'. Just to keep things separated and also it might have sence to create node type without View.

What I had forgot - to make my 'mediamosa_views_browser' to be dependant from it. Can you please retest, enabling those two modules?

Thanks!
Dennis

[dpovshed]

one-click installing of a Video Content type is possible. Further disabling/enabling/uninstalling not tested yet, so please reassign ticket back to Pavel after review.

[peter]

Tested the view and now it work when installing. This ticket can be reviewed by Robert and Kevin can add a small stylesheet.