You like the default front page view, but you find you want to sort it differently.
You like the default taxonomy/term view, but you find you want to sort it differently; for example, alphabetically.
You use /tracker, but you want to restrict it to posts of a certain type.
You like the idea of the 'article' module, but it doesn't display articles the way you like.
You want a way to display a block with the 5 most recent posts of some particular type.
You want to provide 'unread forum posts'.
You want a monthly archive similar to the typical Movable Type/Wordpress archives that displays a link to the in the form of "Month, YYYY (X)" where X is the number of posts that month, and displays them in a block. The links lead to a simple list of posts for that month.

Views can do a lot more than that, but those are some of the obvious uses of Views.

Views is in Drupal 8 core! Please open all Views-related issues for your D8 sites in the Drupal core issue queue.

Views on Drupal 6 is supported by the D6 LTS vendors and not directly supported by the module's maintainers.

The Drupal 7 version of Views requires the Chaos Tool Suite also known as CTools.

Views 3 API (Generated from Views 3 source. Only useful to developers.)
Views 3 documentation hasn't been updated completely yet. Items of note are:
1. Only UID1 can import a View.

"Drupal's Building Blocks" is available and focuses on site building with Views on Drupal 7. Buy it on Amazon.com.

RTBC issues for Views (for Drupal 7)

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