What Would Drupal Do?

I generally get called on to projects to do custom module development and internal architecture/engineering, so I have increasingly less frequent contact with the front end tools and site building type modules. But I've been playing with Panels again lately for a project and ran into an issue with block visibility. While Panels will generally give you an option to respect a block's configured visibility settings, for blocks generated via Views, it does not (even if you have specified visibility rules for that block via admin/build/block). I suspect this is because Panels invokes Views generated blocks directly thereby bypassing that extra 'layer'.

Read on for one solution to this problem.

Owing to a long development period, and several changes of the core development team, we have a lot of leftover Views that are no longer being used. However, with pages upon pages of them and quite a large site, it isn't always immediately apparent which Views are still needed and which aren't.

Here is a very small module I quickly threw together yesterday to track when Views are called/rendered and generate a report at /admin/views_audit. I doubt that there is enough general need for this to put it in contrib, but someone out there might get some use of it.

It should be just as happy running on 4.7 as 5.