Questions tagged [views]
The Views module allows creating lists of entities with a flexible query builder.
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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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Views - Add a wrapper DIV around a Group
In Drupal 7, I have created a View that lists several fields. The fields are grouped by another field (the term ID of the field). The mark up looks like this:
<h3>[Term 1]</h3>
<div ...
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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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How do I export/import views?
I know how to do it in Drupal 6/7, but I cannot find where to export/import views in Drupal 8. From which admin page is possible to do it, in Drupal 8?
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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 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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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 add JavaScript specific for a view?
I have a view in my site that has a specific class name. I want to know, inside the template.php file of a theme, how I can know if a view with specific class name is available in the requested page.
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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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How to get each field value in views-views-unformatted--view-machine-name.html.twig?
I have an twig file: views-view-unformatted--view-machine-name.html.twig
{#
/**
* @file
* Default theme implementation to display a view of unformatted rows.
*
* Available variables:
* - title: ...
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How to create a view type of Entity reference display?
I have an entity which contains a field collection of entity references and can edit the entity references with the Entity selection mode is Simple (with optional filter by bundle), but only Entity ...
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Taxonomy term name as contextual filter for view
In D7 I was able to filter a view according to a taxonomy term name taken from the URL. An example would be this URL
http://www.gbyte.co/tags/drupal-planet/rss.xml
"drupal-planet" would be converted ...
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How do I programmatically render a view with contextual filters?
How do I programmatically render a view with contextual filters in Drupal 8?
In Drupal 7, I generally use the following code.
$view = views_get_view('test_view'); //test_view is the view machine ...
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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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How do I get the route name of a view page?
In my custom submit handler I want to redirect to a view page Url, let's suppose my view name is team and its path is /admin/team, I find out I should use $from_state->setRedirect('route'); but ...
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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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Custom query in Views?
At some point I found the need to modify an SQL query generated by Views, in the end I overrode views_pre_execute and changed the query for that specific view.
This feels like an ugly hack to me and ...
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How to show terms in a Views in its hierarchical structure?
I have create a view to show the terms of the Products vocabulary.
I the view I set:
Format: Html list
Show: field
Fields: Taxonomy term: Name
It works fine but it the hierarchical structure is ...
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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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How to filter a View by Date Range (start, end)?
In Drupal 7 with Views an Date module enabled, it was pretty easy to filter a view by Date: The UI just gave you the option to do so.
In Drupal 8, however, the date field and views are part of core, ...
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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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Contextual filter with a block view
I have a page view("/news") with contextual filter for the topics ("news/design","news/coding"...) which are taxonomy terms and this worked fine. Due to some changes for the mobile theming, I need a ...
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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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How to pass Views contextual filter via URL?
I want to pass some values to my view via contextual filters in the URL. What GET naImes do I use? There seem to be no clue given, just this "The contextual filter values is provided by the URL".
If ...
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Date popup in exposed filter
I'm using Drupal 7 with views 3.
I have used an exposed filter for a date field and I want to provide option to choose date from datepopup for date filter? How can I do this?
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How to combine views exposed filter with search?
My client asked me for a single field, that would work 2 ways:
Autocomplete filter based on taxonomy.
If site visitor inputs something that's not in taxonomy, full text search should be performed on ...
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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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In views, what is the difference between Normal menu entry, Menu tab and Default menu tab
When adding a menu item in views I see three selections that are ambiguius
Normal menu entry
Menu tab
Default menu tab
What is the difference and when would I use each?
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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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Where can I learn about how to create a custom exposed filter for Views 3 and D7?
I am trying to learn how to create a custom exposed filter for a contributed module (select or other). I found this tutorial for Drupal 6 but the code doesn't appear to work out-of-the-box on Drupal ...
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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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View of users flagged by a user, users flagging a user, and nodes from users flagged by a user
I have a user flag that is pretty much like a "follow" or "subscribe" function.
Basically I want to create 3 views for my website's user profile pages:
A list of users flagged by a user (e.g. a ...
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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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Why is the View import option not shown in the views UI?
I'm trying to export/import a view from a dev site to a qa site. Views UI is enabled. However, when I go to structure>views I don't see the "+ import view" option, only:
"+ Add new view" "+ Add new ...
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How do I translate a view page title?
Is there a way to translate a view page title in Drupal 8? How can I achieve it, if it is possible?
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Load more content with ajax when clicking more link in a view
I have a custom block view. I display the last 5 node titles. If someone clicks the more link I want to load the next 5 titles underneath the current 5 node titles. No page refresh and not pager. Is ...
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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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