This module implements Views API on behalf of all panel panes. (ctools content-types). This let's you reuse your panel-panes as fields in views!
It also works with contexts, so node, term and user context panes also work.
A big advantage to this is if you do custom development. All you need to do is create a ctools-content-type once and you can use it both in panels *and* in views.
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