Sometimes we may want to update multiple nodes at once. Views Bulk Operations may help if you want to set the same value for a field of multiple nodes. But if you want to set different values among a set of nodes, then Views Bulk Operations could not help.
In Drupal 6, the Editview module may help but unfortunately there is no Drupal 7 version. An alternative solution could be done by editablefields module.
1. Download and enable the module. (I used the 7.x-1.x-dev version)
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. Continue reading Drupal 7 – Customize the exposed filter selection list→
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.
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
I use the Views PHP field to retrieve a numeric value from database, but it could not be sorted even after i have checked the Enable click sort and select Sort numerically.
It will throws an error. Continue reading Drupal 7 – Sort the Views PHP value→
Today i would like share another module about Drupal access permission. It is called Path Access.
With the help of the Empty Page module, i could create any blank templates with different blocks. But unlike Views page, these empty pages do not have access permission settings. Luckily the Path Access module could fill the gap.
Assume we have a Views page which does not have a contextual filter setting and the view path is /eureka. If you provide an argument in the url such as /eureka/abc, the argument is ignored and the Views page will return all view rows. But sometimes we may want to show the user a page not found instead of return all rows. This can be done by adding a Global: Null argument in the contextual filter. Continue reading Drupal 7 – Show page not found if view argument exists→
I want to show the submitted exposed filter data in the Views header/footer. This can be done by retrieving the $view object in PHP. The following code will printed the exposed filter data. Apply it to the Views header/footer with PHP enabled. Continue reading Drupal – Show exposed filter value in Views header/footer→
Eureka! 