Page 79 in chapter 3 wants the user to override the content type to be blog instead of article for a view display. The blog module is not enabled by default so the blog type is not available until the module is enabled. The user has to enable the blog module first.
Reading Chap 3, I was very excited to try out this Views Exporter... But it didn't install, with Views. I may have an odd installation (I started out with the Drupal Commerce Kickstart, before I acquired this book), but I tried downloading the Views module and installing it again. No dice. There are only two modules under Modules | Views - Views and Views UI, no Views Exporter.
Any ideas?
In the example in chapter 3 on page 71, creating a view of articles by a specific author, it is said to add a filter for User: Name. I was not given this option until I added a relationship to Content: Author. Did I miss that part, is this a recent development, or is it wrong in the book?
We will commonly want some people to have a convenient block of links they are likely to need, and not show this to other people. We can do this in Drupal by giving people who should have common tasks or abilities in common a shared role, making a menu of the links we want to show, and placing the block with this menu into the region of our choice.
The generic goal is a view of content useful to administrators or other privileged users. If it were possible for this goal to be met in a generic fashion, it is more than likely Drupal (or a module) would be providing it for us already, out of the box. Indeed, Drupal core does provide a very useful list of content available at the Content or Find content links (admin/content).
