Recipe 19: Getting to know the Tracker
Note
Ingredients
A drupal.org account
Browser with two tabs open, one for your site, and one for drupal.org
The tracker default view replicates much of the functionality of the Tracker module: it tracks recent posts by users.
Interestingly, the Tracker module does not need to be enabled for the tracker view to work. In Recipe 21, we will implement both the tracker view and the tracker module, together. For now, we'll just become familiar with the default view.
The Drupal website serves as a good example of the tracker:
Log in to drupal.org (create an account now, if you don't already have one).
Visit http://www.drupal.org/tracker, and you will see a page similar to this:
Open a second browser tab for your site. Go to
admin/build/views. Override the default tracker view by clicking on Add. Make note of the following as you scroll through the site.Page Information: The URL is set to tracker.
Page Information: The view type is a Table View.
Menu: The tracker provides...
