Recipe 84: Views Dashboard—code approach

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Ingredients

Path module (part of core)

Tabs module, part of JSTools module: http://drupal.org/project/jstools

Three completed views, without exposed tabs or special permissions

In this recipe we create a dashboard that provides quick access to several views created in this book. This involves some code, but it's fairly understandable, and easy to customize. In the next recipe, we'll use a code-free approach.

1. Enable the Path module if it is not already enabled.

2. Install the JSTools module, and enable the Tabs module.

3. Create a content Page called Dashboard, with a path of dashboard. Body text could be blank (or contain text, per your preference).

4. Go to admin/build/blocks and add a block called dashboard.

5. In a separate window, on the host system, open the README.txt file, located in <DRUPALROOT>/sites/all/modules/jstools/tabs. Copy the code appearing below the line that reads Sample usage. Paste the code into the Drupal block at admin/build/block/add...