Rules scheduler and views- how to show normal users the schedule?

Question

I am using Rules Scheduler and Flag to handle troublesome users by issuing a one-week ban. I flag the user with a temporary ban flag, and then the user sees a special block that says "You have been temporarily banned for being a jerk." I have a rule that automatically schedules the user to be unflagged one week later.

However, I want to show users how much time they have remaining. My first thought was to create a block/content pane in Views, so I made a view of type Rules scheduler, but when I went to add the UID as a Contextual Filter, I realized that Rules scheduler views only provide these options:

• Null
• Component name

Is there some other way I can show the user how much time they have until an arbitrary Rules Scheduler action will be evaluated?

What I tried

Based on this question, I added a filter for user-provided identifier, set the value to a garbage value (punishme), and added views_pre_view() as follows:

function MYMODULE_views_pre_view(&$view) {
  global $user;
  if ($view->name == 'punishment_show_details') {
    if ($user->uid) {
      $newvalue = 'punish/' . $user->uid;
      $view->display[$view->current_display]->handler->options['filters']['rules_scheduler']['value'] = 'punish/' . $user->uid;
    }
  }
}

However, this doesn't work; for some reason, when I dpm() the view, the value for filters is empty.

Answer 1

Why not add a user profile field that stores the ban removal date? Then you could use the "Time ago" formatter with the "Time hence" setting and then just set or unset it using the rule (and it's associated de-ban rule). You can show that field using Views and/or on the user's profile page. Or panels. Or custom code... etc.

Answer 2

I solved this by creating a view with a filter of user-provided identifier, setting the default value to "changeme," and then adding the following code to a custom module to provide the correct identifier (to match the identifiers used to schedule my rules):

function MYMODULE_views_pre_view(&$view) {
  global $user;
  if ($view->name == 'punishment_show_details') {
    if ($user->uid) {
      $newvalue = 'punish/' . $user->uid;
      $view->display[$view->current_display]->handler->options['filters']['identifier']['value'] = 'punish/' . $user->uid;
    }
  }
}