Under site admin we choose the view 'default' by default, but what about the other views?
failsafe, foaf, cal, etc ...
Is there a documentation or description anywhere?
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You must log in to post replies.Documentation regarding views: http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Views
Check out view types near the top.
You can basically represent (view) an object as HTML (default), or as JSON, XML, PHP, RSS, FOAF, etc..
Elgg follows the MVC model, which means displaying/viewing an object is kept separate from the underlying logic.
Thanks a lot, Jeff.
What I want to know is what will I see if you choose Json, etc.
Since (unlike Joomla) elgg doesn't have a seperate admin access, i don't dare :)
With something like JSON, you'd see a JSON string. A JSON view is useful to consume for web services.. more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON
You wouldn't want to display a page in JSON! Same with XML.. If you want to play around, check out this documentation for Elgg's export interface: http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Export_Interface
Here is an example json output for the all discussion page on this community:
http://community.elgg.org/pg/groups/discussion/?view=json
Where it is working correctly, you can add view=json or view=rss etc to the url to see the output.
@ Community Admin
that was very thoughtful of you :)