combining messages and content types in views I am using the Message  module to tell people when nodes are created, deleted or edited.  Is there a way to combine the messages module with my nodes in views.

What I want to do is show a message of a node being deleted or edited, and then show some fields of this node.  I tried using tokens inside the message module, but that does not seem to do the trick.
Workaround:

Use Drupal hooks on create/edit/delete of node, then create a custom message type that just takes text field (no entity reference).

Then in your hooks create the new message type and add for its field value the message text constructed from the node fields. Embed links to node if node is still available.

$message = message_create('general_alert');
$wrapper = entity_metadata_wrapper('message', $message); // populate with node data

// Set necessary fields to use with tokens.
$wrapper-&gt;field_message_text-&gt;set(array('value' =&gt; $text));
$message-&gt;save();


Or even better, include both an entity reference field for your message and a text field. Add the entity reference when creating/updating the node, and populate the text field when deleting the node.