Recipe 41: Views Popup

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Ingredients:

Completed Recipe 34, views_popup view

Views Popup module: http://drupal.org/project/views_popup

The Views Popup module displays a list of up to three fields and then, upon mouseover, displays additional fields in a pop-up box. This is not a date-specific module, but we'll use it to display a workshop description when you move the mouse over the date. We'll also take a look at the views_style_plugins hook, which in this chapter enabled the Date Browser, Timeline, Calendar, and now List View as Popup View Types.

1. Install and enable the Views Popup module.

2. Open the views_popup view at views_popup/edit.

3. In the Page fieldset, change the View Type to List View as Popup, Show 2 Fields.

4. In the Fields fieldset, change the order of the Datestamp and Title fields so that the datestamp is first.

5. Add the Text: Description (field_workshop_description) field.

   

   The first two of these fields will display. The third will be hidden by default.

6. Save and view the views_popup view...