views 6.x-2.0-alpha4

New features

• Relationships
• Javascript to make fields de-activate when they are not relevant
• Edit locking -- only one user can edit a view at a time. The lock can be easily broken.
• All fields from node.module should be in.
• All fields from user.module should be in.
• AJAX paging/tablesorts/exposed filters as an option on the view.

Important note
I added options to a bunch of items that might cause red NOTICE messages to show up regarding unknown variables, especially thinks like 'link'. If you see these on existing views, this is ok; you have to find the handler or plugin that has the new option, and click 'update' and it will set the option and the notice will go away.

The one I can remember offhand is the 'Node' style plugin got a new option that does this.

If you see these on views you add *after* you install this, then that's probably a bug.

This is a rough list of features NOT YET IMPLEMENTED and thus TODO:

• PHP Arg code
• Filter groups
• RSS
• Validation, lots of validation
• Handlers: profile, book, taxonomy, search, upload. Plus, not all handlers from comment have been implemented yet, but lots are.

Here's the full changelog

Changes since DRUPAL-6--2-0-ALPHA3:

• Basic validation framework; check to make sure that items that need fields have fields.
• #234814: (by ezra-g) Disable the save button while the update button is visible
• Implementation of edit locking on views.
• Dependenct javascript so some form elements can appear and disappear when needed/not needed.
• #234969: accept_exposed_input() should return TRUE by default to prevent Views from removing their handlers from the query.
• #235435 (by KarenS): prevent unnecessary warnings during install/update
• #235459: include leading . on all includes; also turn all include_once into require_once for efficiency.
• #235083: Argument titles not set properly when argument default action is taken
• #235778: Drop cache_views on install if it was already there from Views 1.
• #105125: (by moshe) Per field access control; fields will now remove themselves from views if the viewing user does not have access to see the field.
• Removing windows line endings
• #236786: (by KarenS) Make sure all views.*.inc files can be loaded from the module's path or module_path/include directory.
• #236883: Fix previous commit which made all views appear broken by reversing an if improperly
• New feature: relationships. Connect tables through alternate link points.
• Miscellaneous cleanup; ensure relationship safety for some formerly hardcoded/poorly coded items.
• #236894 (by KarenS) basic filter for handling strings with like/not like filters available.
• Refactor views_handler_filter_numeric to use dependency and be easier to create a child class of
• Introduced views_handler_filter_date based on views_handler_filter_numeric as an all-purpose unix timestamp based date filter. Plus re-introduced hook_views_query_substitutions
• simple IS NULL check in _string and _numeric
• Correction to empty filter from yched
• Another correction
• Granular date sorting
• Various node.views.inc based improvements.
• "string" handler argument which is used for the node title argument
• #238252 (by Jose Reyero) basic support for node language in translation
• Finish implement and clean up node.created arguments
• Implement more fields for node links and revisions
• Restore missing, lost object
• Retooled join syntax (old syntax still works...for now). Added "history" table and has new content filter
• Fixed the "extra" portion of views_join which was totally borken. Added "has new content" field shows new/updated.
• Most of user.views.inc plus some bug fixes, improvements to join handling. For those interested in the real complexities, check out views_handler_filter_many_to_one to see cool stuff you can do with joins in views 2 that you could not in views 1
• Re-order views_handler_field_node so that it comes before items that try to extend it
• #239380: Database safe date handling by KarenS! This is a major improvement for PGSQL users!
• #238482: (by KarenS) Remove warnings in exposed filters
• #239428: (Possible fix) -- some systems having problems with their blocks all showing up.
• #115949: (by Nedjo) Allow use if AJAX paging with exposed filters and pager.
• Add AJAX to tablesorting as well
• #235026: "More" link for block and block-like displays
• Minor corrections, improvements to live preview
• Corrections to last patch!
• Correct non-granular date sorting
• #239947: Allow an optional debug signature to views to make it easier to identify where queries come from when perusing a query log.
• Allow totally removing the cache
• A switch to disable caching
• Add simple throbber to most AJAX stuff.
• New .pot file (and a couple of t() errors fixed)