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   3  Data module
   4  ===========
   5  
   6  The Data module provides
   7  
   8  * An API for dynamically allocating tables for single-row records
   9  * An API for insert/update/delete operations
  10  * Automatic views integration
  11  * Together with CTools module: exportable configurations
  12  * Together with schema module: schema inspection and fixing
  13  
  14  Its companion Data UI provides
  15  
  16  * UI to add new database tables
  17  * UI to add or alter columns to existing tables managed by Data module
  18  * Default views for tables managed by Data module
  19  
  20  Use Data Search module if you would like to search one or more columns of your
  21  data tables:
  22  
  23  * Install Data Search
  24  * Go to admin/content/data
  25  * Edit table to be indexed
  26  * Click on "Configure search" tab
  27  * Check table columns to be indexed
  28  
  29  Use Data Node module if you would like to relate nodes to data records:
  30  
  31  * Install Data Node
  32  * Go to admin/content/data
  33  * Edit table to relate to nodes
  34  * Click on "Relate to nodes" tab
  35  * Pick a content type
  36  * Pick which id in table will be related to a node id
  37  * Optionally:
  38    * Use views field handler for adding/removing a data table record to
  39      a node.
  40    * Configure Data Node block to show up in sidebar for selecting an
  41      active node to add a data table record to.
  42  
  43  Working with HTML Fields
  44  
  45  If you are working with a feed that has one or more fields that contain markup
  46  you can specify that those individual fields to be output with the HTML as
  47  opposed to escaped when using views.
  48  
  49  1. Navigate to admin/build/data
  50  2. Select 'Edit' for the table that you are working with
  51  3. Click on the 'Configure views' tab
  52  4. Identify the field that contains HTML. For the 'Field handler' column, select
  53     the 'views_handler_field_data_markup'
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  56  Recommendations
  57  ===============
  58  
  59  Check out Feeds for importing content into Data tables. A working example
  60  thereof can be found in Managing News.
  61  
  62  http://drupal.org/project/feeds
  63  http://managingnews.com