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Views HowTos
- Adding checkboxes/Radios to table
- Count, sum, average, min, max in Views
- D7: Embed a Views 3's result into a page
- D7: Using table column click sort with taxonomy terms.
- Enabling standard pagers in your custom views backend
- How to make Union with different views or displays
- How to use Views 3 and Panels to create a RSS feed for comments for each node
- Overriding default views in code
- PHP contextual filters
- Programatically Updating Views Permissions
- Using PHP to Rewrite Views 3 Output
- Using Views with a non-default data source
- Views Contextual filter and manual Pane argument
- Views permissions
Using Views with a non-default data source
Last updated on
20 January 2021
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Here are some examples of data source plug-ins that Views can use as query back-ends.
- Apache Solr Views
- Elasticsearch Connector Views
- EntityFieldQuery Views Backend
- GBIF
- Google Analytics Reports
- oData
- Sarnia
- Socrata
- SPARQL Views
- Twitter Views Backend
- VARQL
- World Bank API
- Views XML Backend
- Views JSON Query
- YQL Views Query Backend
Any of these projects can be used as an additional baseline for creating additional query plugins. Please feel free to contribute a full tutorial on writing one!
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