Yesterday we have talked about how to use selection list for selecting Entity reference in Views exposed filter.
Drupal 7 – Selection list for Entity reference in Views exposed filter
Now i want to have more control on the selection list. For example, i have a content type called competition and i want to limit the number of options in the Entity reference selection list. In this case, we have to create a custom module and alter the views_exposed_form.
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When you want to set an Entity reference field in Views exposed filter, it only allows free text input filter. But i want to have a selection list instead of a free text input.
Just simply go to the field setting page @ admin/structure/types/manage/<content-type>/fields/<field-name> and check the Render Views filters as select list option. Continue reading Drupal 7 – Selection list for Entity reference in Views exposed filter →
Update @ 2013-11-28: You can also consider using Taxonomy Term Reference Tree Widget suggested by kenorb. =D
When you have a hierarchy structure of taxonomy, the default selection list is not quite user friendly because it list out all the parent and child terms. Assume with want to attach a country and city terms to the Article content type. The most straight forward way is create one vocabulary with some countries as parent terms and some cities as child terms like the following list.
— England
— London
— Manchester
— France
— Lyon
— Paris
It turns on that when someone is adding a new article, he may select either a country term or a city term. That is probably not what we want.
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Dream BIG and go for it =)
Eureka! 