 readme data module the data module provides an api for dynamically allocating tables for singlerow records an api for insert update delete operations automatic views integration together with ctools module exportable configurations together with schema module schema inspection and fixing its companion data ui provides ui to add new database tables ui to add or alter columns to existing tables managed by data module default views for tables managed by data module use data search module if you would like to search one or more columns of your data tables install data search go to admin content data edit table to be indexed click on configure search tab check table columns to be indexed use data node module if you would like to relate nodes to data records install data node go to admin content data edit table to relate to nodes click on relate to nodes tab pick a content type pick which id in table will be related to a node id optionally use views field handler for adding removing a data table record to a node configure data node block to show up in sidebar for selecting an active node to add a data table record to working with html fields if you are working with a feed that has one or more fields that contain markup you can specify that those individual fields to be output with the html as opposed to escaped when using views 1 navigate to admin build data 2 select edit for the table that you are working with 3 click on the configure views tab 4 identify the field that contains html for the field handler column select the viewshandlerfielddatamarkup recommendations check out feeds for importing content into data tables a working example thereof can be found in managing news http drupalorg project feeds http managingnewscom  