views 6.x-2.0-beta1

New features:

• argument defaults and validation; pluggable. This will greatly ease some of the problems with argument discovery. We need to get a few more basic plugins written for this, but basically with a little bit of code you can do all kinds of cool stuff with arguments not there or not matching what you want.
• Quick links on the edit page; hover links on the view view page.
• A weak but expandable view analyzer tool
• Revamped view list page, plus the first advanced help file!
• #248999: (by eaton) Grid style that uses a simple table to display a grid in X columns.
• A theme information tool to give you all the information you need to theme your views.
• Integration with advanced help module. http://drupal.org/project/advanced_help

The Views 1 conversion process is still a little (a lot) rough -- expect to have to do a lot of work to update Views 1 views to Views 2. Still, it does enough that the update isn't awful, and it's a good idea to really rethink the views anyway, since Views 2 operates so much differently.

Important!!!! -- Views theming with Drupal 6.2 will require this patch or it will fail in exciting ways when you try to create view specific templates. PLEASE don't file bugs about this; it'll get into Drupal 6.3 I am fairly sure.

Changes since DRUPAL-6--2-0-ALPHA5:

• Comment fix by John Morahan
• Fix expose and override buttons so that they don't lose changes made to the form.
• #239115: On PHP4, all views appeared as the frontpage view due to PHP reference weirdness.
• #246177: In PHP4, reference mangling caused the many to one filter to totally barf.
• Helper creation must be in init(), not construct()
• Be sure to pass a reference to $this when using call_user_func_array to call a local method, or PHP4 will choke on it
• #246255: Fix typo in handler names
• Fix broken SQL in argument title queries
• Fix expose button so that it does not destroy expose option defaults
• #246290: wildcard argument code had never been implemented. Luckily implementation was simple.
• NEW: argument defaults and validation; pluggable. This will greatly ease some of the problems with argument discovery. We need to get a few more basic plugins written for this.
• Remove unnecessary tabledrag messages. Thanks quicksketch!
• Fix small problem with last commit
• Doxygen documentation update to tabs.inc
• Doxygen documentation update to tabs.inc
• #247479: view name needs 32 char max length
• Quick links on the edit page; hover links on the view view page.
• Provide "access callback" and "access arguments" extension to field access control.
• Initial start at view analysis tool
• A basic analyzer to help find problems, though it needs more analyzing. Plus, new theming information that will really help people figure out exactly what templates they can use to affect their output.
• Revamped view list page, plus the first advanced help file!
• #248750: term_node should link to node via vid, not nid
• #248749: Use more INNER joins for some taxonomy filtering
• Better text on the "path" field to inform people about % arguments
• #247885: user name filter (and taxonomy term filter) did not check for blank string and caused bad query when updating
• #247402: Profile checkbox had invalid filter name (typod)
• #247929: Multiple attachment displays failed due to shallow cloning problems.
• Remove unnecessary drupal clones since views_get_view now always provides clones.
• #248999: (by eaton) Grid style that uses a simple table to display a grid in X columns.
• Spiffy improvements to grid view
• #249135: RSS pubDate should not be localized.
• Some stub help files to get started.
• Update frontpage default view; add archive default view.
• Add base table to view list info and filter
• Visual adjument to list filter/sort form.
• New filter for published or can view published nodes; also analyze check to see if node views have a published filter if they have no access control.
• Assorted code and @todo cleanup
• More stuff in the tools menu
• Make options on plugins more consistent with options() on handlers.
• #248750: Taxonomy "all terms" linking via nid when it should be vid
• Some updates to comment.views.inc (more to come) plus a fix to the last checkin.
• #248750: Really really fixed this time.
• #249738: add "select count(*) from(...) as count_alias" after db_rewrite_sql because db_rewrite_sql seems to mess up with the subquery
• #249489: Remove extraneous, incorrect #description from "transform spaces to dashes" which is pretty descriptive on its own.
• Some more improvements to comment.views.inc
• Improvements to finding items when adding fields
• Fix for exposed filters with ajax and clean URLs off
• Fix problem grabbing incorrect data from cache
• Redo some form stuff to make it easier to choose the next form when chaining; and add some new chaining options. This commit will require you to visit admin/build/modules to reset the menu or the UI will stop working.
• Some admin.inc cleanup after last commit
• #250782: remove filter was still trying to call the removed views_ui_check_stack() function.
• Fix for user autocomplete
• autocomplete on view tag
• Add a bit of validation
• Tracker view, adjustments to convert, minor bug fixes
• Fix pager which was claiming to be full but showing mini for a setting that was sort of in between.
• Fix pager which was claiming to be full but showing mini for a setting that was sort of in between.