Chris Shattuck: Notes from moving from Drupal Views 2 to Views 3 Alpha

July 19, 2010 by Steve Hanson

Chris Shattuck: Notes from moving from Drupal Views 2 to Views 3 Alpha -

I decided to jump into Views Alpha 3 because I wanted to explore the Views Infinite Scroll module, and I have a friend using it on a large production site without any problems. Here are some notes from the upgrade experience.
No update.php run was required - nice.

I did get a WSOD on the /admin/build/views page, but I CTFC and all was good.

Here's the new interface, which looks a lot like the old one:

On one of my side blocks, a pager suddenly appeared, so I had to change the pagination settings here:

This is cool, the number of items and pagination settings have merged into a single setting.

I also started to notice that the configuration blocks are ordered a bit differently. There are basic and advanced settings panes now, and the new ordering does seem to make more sense, though it's hard to tell if it would make more sense to someone new to Views.

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