Recipe 66: Using the Flag module for various use cases

Note

Ingredients

Flag module: http://drupal.org/project/flag

Views Custom Field module: http://drupal.org/project/views_customfield

In this recipe, we expand upon Recipe 65, examining more use cases for the Flag module with Views. We'll manage fact-checking by editors and prepare lists of workshop attendee RSVPs. We'll also flag some comments as inappropriate and see one of the limits to the views module in that context.

1. Complete Recipe 65. Additionally, install and enable the Views Custom Field module.

2. Create three flags: inappropriate, fact_check, and rsvp), as follows, at admin/build/flags/add. The bookmarks flag settings that come with the module are shown for comparison.

   Note that the table of settings continues on the following page:

   Name	bookmarks	inappropriate	fact_check	rsvp
   Type	Nodes	Comment	Nodes	Nodes
   Title	Bookmarks	Inappropriate	Fact Check Needed	RSVP
   Flag link text	Bookmark this	Flag as Inappropriate	Fact Check...