PRONOVIX

Tonight a tweet from Laura Scott lead me to a blogpost by Zack Rosen at Semantic Focus. From the first sentence it seemed a bit odd, it's been more than 12 years since Tim Berners-Lee started working on the Semantic Web and most if not all of the points that followed seemed outdated.

Views 2 has undergone significant improvements to it's UI over Views 1. But even for moderately experienced Drupal users it can still be a bit overwhelming. When I need to show the edit views form to a customer who just wants to tweak the header or footer text on a view, that's just plain wrong. There are of course a couple of hacks to get around this:

Before I got totally swamped in the preparation of Drupalcon Szeged, I was playing with a module that uses a nodeAPI implementation for extra RSS fields, similar to Ian Ward's "views rss extra maker" in the developmentSEED sandbox. This Monday I finally committed it.

The module leverages the Views 1.0 field interface to give users control over the fields that will be displayed. It needs a minor patch to views_RSS (to add the $view variable when invoking the nodeAPI) to be able to do it's thing (nested tags, only specified fields). It also supports CCK fields with multiple values.