Chapter 2. Working with Default Views
Right out of the box, the Drupal Views module provides six pre-made "default" views that you can rapidly incorporate into your site. While serving your site, the default views can also serve as a valuable learning resource, providing keys to understanding a number of advanced Views features. Using default views as examples we will have the chance in this chapter to introduce all but one of the primary Views fieldsets.
With only core Drupal and Views installed, you will initially see just four default views. There are displayed at the bottom of the page at http://YOURSITE.com/admin/build/views
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Two more default views become available when you enable the core Statistics module.
Default views are created in code (by contrast, most views reside in the views tables in the Drupal database). Any contributed module may create one or more default views. Appendix A contains a list of close to 200 default views from sixty contributed Drupal 5 modules.
For the default...