how to use parent field in child view in views field View

Question

I am using Views Field View module. I need to filter the child view using the parent field. Can anyone experienced in it please share.

Answer 1

You will have to send a contextual filter from your parent view and catch it in your embedded view. There are plenty of tutorials on contextual filters, but this one should get you started: http://www.metaltoad.com/blog/using-drupal-contextual-filters-views

UPDATE you can set a contextual filter from your parentview by editing the embedded view in 'fields' and define it in the view-settings drop-down.

Answer 2

As I had a lot of trouble setting context filters properly for Views Field View, and couldn't find any documentation on the subject or proper answers, I'll provide more detailed walk-through here:

I want to have a list generated like this from different content types:

• First group of things

• Some data about that group

  • name of first thing from that group
  • name of second thing from that group

• Second group of things

• Some data about that second group

  • name of first thing from the second group
  • name of second thing from the second group

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1. I've created parent view "my_group_of_things" showing fields from content type "my_group"
2. I've created child view "list of things" showing fields from content type "thing"
3. The content type "thing" has a field ("field_my_group") of type node reference that references to selected "my_group" and has a label "Content: MyGroup"
4. In parent view ("my_group_of_things") I add field Content: Nid
5. In the same parent view I add field Content: View and set it to "list of things"
6. While setting the Content: View field I enter [!nid] in the CONTEXTUAL FILTER text box
7. Don't forget to apply the Content: View and save the View
8. In child view ("list of things"), in ADVANCED tab, I add a CONTEXTUAL FILTER
9. While setting this contextual filter I choose Content: MyGroup (field_my_group)
10. In the same contextual filter I set WHEN THE FILTER VALUE IS NOT AVAILABLE to "Hide view"
11. Apply and save. It should work now.

Very simple, but without documentation and arrogant answers like "yeah, i got it now", or "just set up contextual filter" it took me a whole day to figure out.