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Creating dynamic views with a contextual filter

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Intro to Views for Drupal 7 Series

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1. Overview of Views FREE 3m
2. Overview of the Views user interface FREE 15m
3. Creating a new view 7m
4. Displaying content & fields with Views formats 18m
5. Adding fields to a Views table 15m
6. Controlling HTML markup with Views style settings 9m
7. Configuring Views relationships 9m
8. Using Views displays to create variations 20m
9. Setting up private views with access control 20m
10. Creating exposed filters & filter groups 18m
11. Creating dynamic views with a contextual filter 16m
12. Creating an attachment display 16m
13. Creating a view of users 19m
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Goes through the process of creating dynamic views with contextual filters by taking the content ID (i.e. the node it) from the URL and inserting that value as an argument for the views query. In the end, we're able to create a tab that shows all of the job applications for a particular job and have that view show up on the related job posting node.

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dianikol on October 5, 2011 - 12:36pm

Hello from Greece. Great series!! Just one question about the contextual filters. You used node/% to take the specific id from the url in order to pull the right info for this node. What should be done if the path is a pretty url instead of node/id? I believe everyone use pathauto module and global redirect module.

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