Announce: Smartqueue Views (Drupal 6 Module)
Here is another useful module I put together for a client’s site. The more I think about it the more surprised I am that something like it didn’t already exist. I can see reusing this on lots of sites, so I hope someone else might find it useful).
About
Note: This module does not provide the ability to display smartqueues through views. That functionality already exists in the core Nodequeue module. This module allows for creating and limiting subqueues based on views.
A module to allow for creating subqueues for nodes specified by a view. The module further, optionally allows for further filtering the nodes that can be assigned to each of these subqueues with a further view, which is provided with the nid of node that owns a given subqueue.
Usage
After enabling the module, create a view (“view a”) that returns a field of nids. Then create a new subqueue by clicking on the “add view generated queue” tab in the nodequeue admin panel. Select your newly created view in the “View for deciding which nodes have subqueues” field.
Optionally, if you want to limit the nodes that can be added to these subqueues beyond by content type, of you can create a second view (“view b”). This second view should return a set of nids. This second view will be provided a nid as an argument, which can also be used to further limit the results. When editing the subqueue, set this second view in the “View for which nodes can be added to these subqueues” field.
Now, whenever you view a node returned by “view b”, you’ll see the “nodequeue”, tab, indicating that this node can be added to one of the subqueues that belong to one of the nodes returned by “view a.”
Interested? Find it in my Drupal Sandbox
