Development Tips

Here are some of the "tricky" ways I've manipulated Drupal to get the job done, without resorting to custom modules or theming.

• Embed a "context sensitive" View for all Nodes of a given type | drupal.org
  The "contextual view" technique was used to create the "mini-gallery" that automatically builds itself on "Market Pages".

• Create a Block to show "Latest News" related to current page | drupal.org
  This uses the same technique, but puts the results in a block instead of an embedded view.  
  This technique was used to create the "What's News" blocks, with news related to each page.

• Contextual View Block to render part of Node's page view | drupal.org
  Same trick again, but to display info from just one node.  "Hide" some CCK fields, and use a Contextual View Block to display them in the sidebar.

• Add a drop-down, context-sensitive, overlaid help block | drupal.org
  Uses a region styled with an absolute position and an overlay z-index to create a little roll-down help block, using Collapsiblock.  This is the one that shows up on the Photos area, for example.