View counter

Viewcounter can run lists of arguments against a view and store the number of results in the view as nodes and their revisions.

Let's say you want to know how many nodes of type X you have and you want to track the change over time. Viewcounter allows you to do that. Different things can be used as arguments for the view that gets counted. At the moment there's support for taxonomy terms, workflow states, and other views.

A simple application is to count how many nodes are tagged with each taxonomy term of a vocabulary. To do this create a new viewcounter using the wizard, select taxonomy term ids as argument type, select the vocabulary and the view, which should take one argument, the term id (it's probably not obvious that you need to create the counting view first).

Note that you need to create a vocabulary and at least one term in it so viewcounter can identify different result sets.

Included is also a patch for flot to make it work under drupal 5 and offer a new views plugin to display viewcounter results as a graph.

Finally, viewcounter collides with another module revision_moderation because of its views integration.

Developers who want to extend viewcounter should look at the included argtype_workflow module which allows using workflow states as arguments which shows that it is quite simple to add more argument types. There is also a sample data import module which can be used as a starting point for writing your own import script.