How to alter the Views field Format drop-down menu

Question

I am exporting some XML feeds using Views. One of these fields needs to look like this:

<image>http://example.com/path/to/myimage.jpg</image>

I am storing my image in a CCK field. When selecting that field in Views, these are the options provided:

I don't need an teaser, full node, editable something, or HTML formatted link, just the path to the image. How do we alter that Format selector?

Answer 1

If your content type is blog, for example, and it has a CCK image field, create a relationship from your blog content type to the image content type.

Create a new field in the View and select the field_image from the image content type, make sure to select the relationship you created:

And select URL to file from the Format dropdown: