Recipe 23: Creating a Default View

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Ingredients

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In this recipe we will create a module to implement a default view. At the core of this recipe is a Views hook called hook_views _default_views(). This should be a fairly accessible recipe, even if you don't consider yourself to be an accomplished coder. The module will have three files.

• swim_groups.info

• swim_group.views_default.inc

• swim_groups.module

1. If it isn't there already, create a new directory under <DRUPALROOT>/sites/default/modules/ called custom (of course, if the modules directory doesn't yet exist, make sure to create that first).

2. Create a directory under <DRUPALROOT>/sites/default/modules/custom called swim_groups.

The ".info" file

1. Create a file in <DRUPALROOT>/sites/default/modules/custom/swim_groups, named swim_groups.info, containing the following content:

   ; $Id$
   name = Swim Groups
   description = Module demonstrating a default view
   dependencies = views
   package = Other

Default Views function...