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Contextual filters taxonomy name
I'm adding a contextual filter to a view for a custom content type that has a taxonomy field. The contextual filter allows me to filter by the taxonomy tag id but not by the taxonomy tag name. Meaning ...
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How to create a union of two views?
I'm trying to get a union of a user's nodes and comments sorted by "post date".
This post links to sandbox projects for D6 but there is nothing for 7.
This post has an example of using ...
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How do I change the ajax loading behaviour in Views?
I have a view with some exposed filters in a block; it uses AJAX and the auto-submit feature so the view is re-loaded as soon as a filter option is changed.
In the short delay between selecting an ...
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Node count for taxonomy terms
How can I display the node count values for taxonomy terms with sorting the result list in descending order of node count?
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How do I group elements in a view?
I have 8 articles: Article 1 (Gaming), Article 2 (Local News), Article 3 (World News), Article 4 (World News), Article 5 (Gaming), Article 6, Article 7, Article 8.
In a view I would like to group the ...
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How do I programmatically show a view block?
I created a view block, whose machine name is "news."
How do I display it using module_invoke() and the machine name of the view?
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Count results in Views using aggregation [closed]
Is it possible to count results (e.g. count the nodes of the content type x) in a view, using aggregation (not programmatically)?
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How do I override a taxonomy/term/% list with a view?
I have a vocabulary attached to a content type. Only one term can be selected to categorize a node made with this content type. The vocabulary is called Vehicles and has terms 'cars, trucks, boats.' ...
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How do I remove duplicates when using the random sort?
I have created a view where I am displaying the the node title and a logo (a cck field). In the arguments I have passed the taxonomy term name.
In the result a node is displaying 2 or 3 times; I ...
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What is the meaning of the field:delta content type offered in contextual filters in views?
When creating a new contextual filter for a view the list of types includes options such as content:spec (field_spec:delta) where spec is the name of a field I have attached to the content type ...
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Expose single filter of combination of two fields in views
I have two user profile fields "Last Name" and "First Name". I also have a user list views. I want to expose "Name" as filter which can search for both Last Name and First Name.
How can I do single ...
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Are views cached through the core caching mechanisms or should I be setting the caching directly in each view?
I see there are cache settings in each of my views. Do I need to set these or does the core caching mechanisms in /admin/config/development/performance automatically do some of this and these "extra ...
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Get the actual query executed by a view
I need to find out the SQL query that is executed by a certain query. Views module can show the SQL when configuring the view but apparently the query is not the actual query that gets run in all ...
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Clean way of building simple taxonomy browser of arbitrary depth
I have spent days trying to determine a clean way to do the following:
Display a list of all top-level terms in a vocabulary with links to their child terms
Upon clicking a link, be taken to a list ...
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How do I create a nested tree with terms & nodes with Views 3?
I need to create something similar like this:
Colors (Vocabulary)
Red (term)
Dark (term)
Node 1
Node 2
Light (term)
Node 3
Node 4
Blue (term)
Node 5
Node 6
Green (term)
Node 7
Node 8
(...
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Custom views handler without table
This seemed easy at first but I'm losing my hair on this.
I simply want to add a custom view handler that uses no table.
I tried to do as views php proposed, $data['views']['mycustomfield'] in ...
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Filtering on node whose user ID is equal to the current user
In Drupal 6 you can have a filter node.uid = current user. How do you do this in Drupal 7?
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How do I use hook_views_query_alter()?
Following what reported in the documentation for hook_views_query_alter(), I created a file named alterform.views.inc and put it into an enabled module called alterform. I added the following code in ...
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Using views with a custom table/schema
I need to set up some views that will pull some data from a custom table I created. Some views will need to pull content the regular way and from my custom table (where I may query for a particular ...
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Add FILTER CRITERIA in Views Programmatically
I want to add/modify a filter criteria programmatically.
For example, for a view, I added an "Email Address" filter whose value is needed to change dynamically, it is needed to set to the current ...
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How do I display/edit the machine name for a View?
How do I display/edit the machine name for a View?
Reason for asking is that I tried cloning a view but the name I gave was rejected because it had already been used but I couldn't see where.
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Create template file for views block
There is a lot about theming custom blocks, but what about blocks created by views?
My views block has id: block-views-posts-listing-block,
I try many ways for naming template file, ex: block--block-...
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Views Block's machine name is being "hashed" (?)
A Drupal newbie, so correct me if my understand is wrong, but normally, when a Block is created by Views, the machine name of the block is appended to the Views' machine name.
i.e. "...
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How to use a views contextual filter OR?
After browsing the net and SE for a while it appears to me there is no good solution to combine 2 contextual filters with OR (rather than the default AND).
This post mentions a PHP hack and this post ...
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How to Filter view by comparing 2 fields. If field-a < field-b
I have a product content type that has 2 price fields.
I want to create a view that shows all products where price-A is less than price-B.
I was hoping I could just add a filter and select price-A ...
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Views exposed filter to search multiple fields [duplicate]
To my knowledge there hasn't been an option in drupal 7 to create a single exposed filter in a view which searches multiple fields, while in previous versions there existed modules to do just that.
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How can I create a view of child nodes based on the menu relationship?
Say you have the following pages in a menu tree:
Projects
Project One
Project Two
Project Three
I'm looking for a way to create a view that will be embedded in the Project (parent) page that will ...
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How to expose non Drupal tables in Views?
I wonder what is the best way to allow the Views module to access external tables not in Drupal?
I tried the Data module, but it doesn't allow for a datetime datatype.
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How can I concatenate two fields in a view?
I have a view set up to use the unformatted list type. I'm pulling in about 10 different fields, but would like to concatenate two of them onto a single line in the display. Is this possible?
Example:...
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Views exposed filters without "Apply" button
I have created a view with exposed filters of term select list. How can I make the select list to work directly on selecting an item, instead of clicking on the "Apply" button?
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Removing main content block on frontpage
I'm new to Drupal 7 and I'm looking to replace the frontpage's default main content block with an equivalent block generated from Views (gaining more control over the block in doing so).
I have ...
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View commerce product image and price fields
In Drupal 7 commerce I ran into a problem.
I want to display the latest 3 items placed in the show_product content type, with attributes from the store. There are several entities in the store, ...
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How do I get the raw URL as a field in Views?
In views I need to return the raw url that is provided as the href value to the title field (when as a link) or the Content: link value. I thought originally I could choose Content:link and strip the ...
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How to add Clear button for views exposed filter?
I created a content type and View with Filter Criteria for my project, when I click the Search it shows the appropriate results.
But there is no option to clear the Search Fields and redirected to ...
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Related nodes by taxonomy term in a view block [closed]
In Drupal 7, I've got a content type called "Asset" with a taxonomy field called "Category". All I need is a Block on the Asset pages that looks at the current node's Category term(s), finds all other ...
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How do I set my views to return a 404 using Global: Null under contextual filters?
Standard Drupal behavior is to pass all arguments through, whether or not they requested. Sometimes this behavior is desired. However, I need to return a 404 for anything but a query string.
Example ...
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How do I filter only the root terms in a vocabulary in a view?
I have have a vocabulary structured as so:
Root Alpha
Term Alpha 1
Term Alpha 2
Subterm Alpha 1
Root Beta
Root Gamma
Term Gamma 1
Term Gamma 2
How do I filter the view to show only the root ...
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How to integrate Field collection module in Views?
I have created fields and grouped together with Field collection module. I have attached the group field (containing 4 fields), to user account settings in : admin/config/people/accounts/fields.
Now ...
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What is causing Views to consistently but intermittently not find a view provided by the Advanced Forum module?
I'm getting a frequent, intermittent error from the Advanced Forum module that causes a 500 error when it occurs (WSOD). On production, it's happening about 20 times per hour, on probably 2-3% of all ...
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Using hook_form_alter on exposed view filters on Drupal 7
I'm having some trouble using hook_form_alter() with Views 3 and Drupal 7.
I'm unable to add an if statement to uniquely identify a view; whatever I put in, the if statement is never found to be ...
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How to group views rows by year using date field?
I have a content type with a date field.
I need to output them grouping by year, i.e.
2011
- nodeA 2011-09-01
- nodeB 2011-01-29
2010
- nodeC 2010-12-08
How can I do that?
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In a view, how can I link a field to the node?
In a fields view, the "title" field has a check box "Link this field to the original piece of content". But this check box isn't available for other fields. How can I achieve this functionality for ...
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how to use hook_views_query_alter() to modify where condition?
I'm trying to modify the where condition of a views query. till now I was successful with altering "order by", but I have no idea how to alter the where condition. I want to check the search_term and ...
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What is the difference between rendered entity and content in views 3?
In the Format option for a view, the options include Content and Rendered Entity.
They both offer you a selection of view mode for the content. The former includes some extra options on comments/...
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Changing url of exposed filter
When I used an exposed filter the filter selection is passed as name/value pair in the url, for example:
members?field_a=valuea&field_b=valueb
How can I set it up to use more of a "pathauto" ...
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How do I pass contextual filters to a view via services
I have a view that accepts a contextual filter in order to return the correct results. I'm using Services 3 and Drupal 7. I'm able to create an endpoint, and retrieve the view via services. But it ...
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Is it possible to dynamically set Views' pager settings?
Say for instance, you have a view that displays when viewing a certain node type, but you want the pager settings to be different for each individual node. I was thinking of making a CCK field like "...
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Building a Views Filter
I want to build a filter for a custom module I built and have integrated with views. In essence, the module allows you to define types of relationships between different nodes. I'd like to create a ...
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Loading nodes from another Drupal database using Views
I'm trying to use Views to load nodes from another Drupal database defined in settings.php with a key of 'cms'. Both sites are Drupal 7. The other database is a different Drupal install which is ...
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drupal_goto(request_uri()) replaces my '?', '=' and '&' in url
I need to redirect user from a page with example.com/node/add/dispo?arg1=1&arg2=2 to the same type of URL. But when I simply do a drupal_goto(request_uri());, it redirects my user to example.com/...
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