Drupal Views

You have created a Drupal View as a page and the View is working correctly as intended in the preview section in the View settings page. However when you visit the actual page it throws up a 'Page cannot be displayed' error after you had clicked on the View button on the Views settings page. So what is causing the problem and what could be the fix? Read on to see the solution. <!-break-->

If your Drupal site has some content which is restricted to certain users using hook_node_access you might find that the Views you create might bypass these hook_node_access restrictions granting unauthorized users complete access to view the content. The permissions might come into place only when the users click on the title of the node. If you need to know how to fix this, read on.

If you are creating a View using the Drupal Views module and if you want to filter nodes based on nids (Node > NID filter) then Views gives you options to filter it based on a single argument of the nid. Currently there is no direct way to have multiple nid filters in Views similar to "Is one of" for Taxonomy. However there is a workaround to achieve that. Read onto find out more.

Some Drupal users have reported that there was a conflict with an external Jquery script and the Views Ajax. This occured when the Drupal user wanted to use the external script for some specifc purpose. The conflict was causing the Views UI to break. If you are experiencing this issue in your Views read on to find out the solution.

If your Drupal site has a group of nodes ordered chronologically and you wish to randomly show one of the first five most recent nodes each time then you might face a small roadblock. SQL has no way to do this and therefore there is no way Views can execute this directly. However there is a workaround to make this work. Read onto find out more.

Some Drupal Views users have encountered a Page not found error when they tried to navigate to the new Views Page files display they had created. This occurred after the preview page worked correctly and showed the correct test file in the table. It is not very clear what causes this error in the first place but there are multiple actions you can take to fix it. Read on to find out more.

Drupal Gmap module is a very useful module for embedding the functionality of Google Maps in your website. Currently the only way to access this map is to go to the "yoursitee.com/map/node and find all the relevant info on a single map. There is no direct way to access i location nodes on a single map, inside a block or panel pane, or on pages other than yoursitee.com/map/node. However there is a workaround for this. Read on to find out more.

Drupal Views can be displayed as both blocks and pages. If you want the View to be embedded in a node in your Drupal site then the obvious choice would be to display it as a block. View blocks can be embedded in a node as any other block by calling a set of functions like block_load and drupal_render. However it is not directly possible to pass contextual filters as arguments to those functions if your View uses them. Read on to find out how to pass contextual filters to a View embedded in a node.

This is how you would normally render a view display passing filter inputs via code: $view = views_get_view('view-name'); $view->set_display('display-name'); $view->is_cacheable = FALSE; $filter_1 = $view->get_item('display-name', 'filter', 'filter_1_id'); $filter_2 = $view->get_item('display-name', 'filter', 'filter_2_id'); $filter_1['value'] = "value1"; $filter_2['value'] = "value2"; $view->set_item('display-name', 'filter', 'filter_1_id', $filter_1); $view->set_item('display-name', 'filter', 'filter_2_id', $filter_2); dpm($view->render());