sort a view by Most Viewed, Most Favorited, Latest

Question

I have view which contains all nodes of a content type(article). default sort criteria of view is recent nodes. But i have three links Most Viewed, Most Favorited, Latest.I have to sort this view by clicking on these links .

I am making a node favorite by using flag module .

How can i achieve that .

Please Help.

Answer 1

• Create three different views, Most Viewed, Latest, Most favourite with display type block.
• For sorting by views, You need to enable statistics module.
• For sorting by latest, use post date sort filter in views.
• For sorting by favourite, flag module has integration with views. You can able to create a filter to sort by number of flags.
• Use Quick Tabs module to group above three different view blocks as a single block and display it where ever needed.

Answer 2

You can achieve it using VIEWS.

First of all enable statistics module and create 3 blocks Most Viewed, Most Favorited, Latest and Add required fields

• Views : Latest Block

  • Sort by POST DATE
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• Views : Most Viewed Block

  • Enable statistics module and go to admin/config/system/statistics configuration page and check Count content views

    

  • Add the statistics counter field in VIEWS BLOCK if you want to see the count

    

  • Add Add filter criteria to sort the VIEWS block to sort based on most Viewed

    

• Views : Most Favorited Block

  • Add the relationship

    

    

    

  • Add filter criteria to sort based on flags