My (Drupal 7) site has a search which uses two blocks - one for entering the criteria and one for the results.
(For brevity, I won't explain in detail why I need two blocks but it's basically because I'm doing a drop-down search a bit like this approach. Suffice to say that I can't do it all in one block.)
The search is at mysite.com/contact-us. I've got a context rule which shows the criteria block in the sidebar when the contact-us URL path matches.
I want the results block to appear on the same page as the criteria block, appearing in its place. Therefore, I've got a URL alias of contact-us/find, which points to contact-us. My context rules say that if the path is contact-us/find, the results block should be shown. (The alias was set up via the UI, i.e. Configuration > URL aliases)
So both contact-us and contact-us/find show the Contact Us page, but there are different Context rules and so different blocks are shown in the sidebar.
That's the theory anyway. Here's what happens in practice:
- I browse to mysite.com/contact-us. I see the criteria block.
- I fill in the search criteria
- I am taken to e.g. mysite.com/contact-us/find?property=35 (the querystring provides an ID which the results view uses). I see the results block in the sidebar. So far, so good!
- However, if I then go back to mysite.com/contact-us (e.g. to search again), I still see the results block and not the criteria one! And it thinks there are no results as I no longer have the querystring.
If I clear the cache, all is well again - I see the correct blocks. But I need a solution which doesn't require a cache clear - that's not something my users will be doing!
I presume that I'm running into problems because both contact-us and contact-us/find are actually the same node, and so Context can't accurately differentiate between them unless the cache is empty, but I'm not sure.
Any suggestions how I could resolve this one? Could I have a different type of rule specifying when the blocks should appear? Or something else? I'm all out of ideas!
