Modify label on view exposed filter

Question

I have a view with exposed filter to a field as follows :

I want to change the text 'Deployment date from' and 'And' to 'From' and 'To'

Can i do this with hook_views_query_alter or hook_views_pre_render

Answer 1

You can easily change the first label with the views editor, by setting it in Filter criteria part. But for the "And" i think you have it because you selected the "is between" operator. So the easiest way to change it is to use hook_form_alter() our hook_form_FORM_ID_alter() and change the '#title' of that second form field.

If you inspect the html of your field in front, you will see that it is in a tag. So get the id of that form, for example

<form id="views-exposed-form-activities-page-1" ></form>

then in your_module.module file implements hook_form_FORM_ID_alter():

<?php

/**
 * @file
 * This is your_module.
 */

use Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface;

/**
 * Implements hook_form_FORM_ID_alter().
 */
function YOURMODULE_form_views_exposed_form_activities_page_1_alter(array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state, $form_id) {
  $form['your_annoying_field']['#title'] = t('To'); //Instead of "And".
}

Answer 2

Finally i got the answer . Actually it should be used like YOURMODULE_form_views_exposed_form_alter only . No need of activities_page_1_ as expected . Am adding the answer below :

/**
 * Implements hook_form_FORM_ID_alter().
 */
function module_name_form_views_exposed_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {
  $form['created']['min']['#title'] = t('From');
  $form['created']['max']['#title'] = t('To');
}

Answer 3

The easiest way to do this is with the String Overrides module. It's still under heavy development for Drupal 8 but MegaChriz (maintainer of the Feeds module a.o.) made a pretty stable version that you can download here:

https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/stringoverrides.zip

More information:

https://www.drupal.org/node/2236791#comment-8783307

Answer 4

I was able to do this with the following code.

Note that my field is actually called field_date, but to access the label I had to add "_value" to the end of my field to make it field_date_value.

Also note that $form_id for an exposed form is going to be generic. To check for a unique form ID, check $form['#id'].

/**
 * Implements hook_form_FORM_ID_alter().
 */
function MY_MODULE_form_views_exposed_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {
  if($form['#id'] == 'views-exposed-form-my-unique-form-id') {  
    $form['field_date_value']['min']['#title'] = t('From');
    $form['field_date_value']['max']['#title'] = t('To');
  }
}