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I have a Drupal 8 view where I want to sort nodes by authored year using contextual filters.

So www.mysite.com/2017

will list all nodes from 2017.

I set up the filter using 'Content: Created Year' which takes YYYY format.

But the filter is ignored.

www.mysite.com/2017 returns all years.

What did I miss?

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Try adding the placeholder % to the path (in the main views UI in the middle column under "Page settings"),

e.g. something like my-view/by-year/% which will accept URLs like my-view/by-year/2019

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  • Thanks. Forgot about that step. That did it.
    – edg
    Jun 21, 2019 at 20:00
  • @edg You should accept Hudri's answer as the correct one if it solved the problem.
    – pmagunia
    Jun 21, 2019 at 23:28
  • I spoke too soon. The % is not essential for the original problem. I scrapped the view and started afresh and it worked both with and without the %. The % is useful if you need your dynamic value in the path e.g. www.mysite.com/%/feed . Not sure what fixed it.
    – edg
    Jun 22, 2019 at 1:22
  • My problem was probably related to caching. By default, the view's tag based caching is on (under 'Advanced') so any changes I made were probably not updating. The good news is the contextual filter now works for me as advertised. Thanks Hudri for your response
    – edg
    Jun 22, 2019 at 1:52

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