This is a followup post to a post where I showed how you can use VDC to display data from an external database table in a Drupal View. In this post I display an external database view as a Drupal View. This is another step towards showing how Drupal can be used as a Business…Continue readingExternal Database Views As Drupal Views
A Drupal View that uses Views Database Connector (VDC) to show external database tables will not have all features of a “normal” View. For example, select filters are only available for list fields, references and taxonomy terms. In this post I use two modules to improve the exposed filters in my external data View. In…Continue readingDrupal: Filters for External Data Views
Apart from Drupal most organisations may have many systems such as a CRM, HR and e-commerce system. The field of Business Intelligence (BI) deals with bringing disparate data sources into a single data warehouse(DW). If you wanted to display data from your DW using Drupal, the Views module is a good place to start. Before…Continue readingDrupal: Using Views Database Connector (VDC) To Display Data in External Database