hi,
I'm having some trouble with Views and Panels (I'm using the latest version of both modules).
I've created a view with two "content pane" displays to list some sort of content (let's say blog entries). The first "content pane" displays the first 5 blog entries of a given user. The second "content pane" displays all blog entries of a given user. To get from the first "content pane" to the second I want to provide a "more" link on the first one.
The first "content pane" is on one panels page (which points to "/user/%user") and the second "content pane" is on an totally different panels page (which points to "/user/%user/foo"). So I have to seperate panels pages and every one carries one of the "content pane" displays from my view.
Since I've no "page" display in my view, the "more" link doesn't appear on the first "content pane" display. I don't want to create pages with views because I can't override the page's path with a page created with panels.
How is this supposed to work together? How can I link from one "content pane" display to another or to a custom panels page?
Thanks for any help.
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I solved a similar problem
I solved a similar problem using taxonomy. My problem was that I wanted the 'more' link to go to a custom panels page, not a view or the original content node.
I had taxonomy terms for organizational use already. I made the terms correspond to the panels page path: blah.com/products/[term]
In the view, i had teh title field and description field. The description field was set to be trimmed. I excluded the description field from display. I added the taxonomy term name to the fields in use and checked "rewrite content of this field". I used tokens to reconstruct my little blurb:
[field_description]
(link tag) href="/products/[name]"
([name] is the taxonomy term name)
I'm not sure if a similar approach would help you link a content pane to another content pane, but I was pretty happy to find that this simple procedure worked for me. :)
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Hi Julia, thanks for your
Hi Julia,
thanks for your reply.
I didn't try it this way because it would cause an other problem (I think).
You say you've created the "more" link by adding a "field" in views and you've altered its output to display a custom link.
This method could work if you show only one node at a time but as soon as you have more than one node to show this "more" link would be generated on every node, right? In my case I want to show the latest 5 blog entries, so every of the 5 nodes would have a "more" link, right? What I need is only one of them, preferably at the end (just like the default "more" link from views) :-). How can I approach this? I'm using taxonomy as well but not so much for organizational stuff (it's more like tagging nodes for a custom search engine).
If there's really no way to utilize the default "more" link functionality from views, how can I create a custom link which will be generated only once?
Thanks again for any help :-)
Best regards,
DrupalCuckoo
View footer?
You could even use custom PHP code to render the "more" link to anywhere you wish.
hi, yes I could, but it's not
hi,
yes I could, but it's not the solution I'm looking for :-)
I mean how can you utilize Panel Pages and Views to go from one Panel Page to another Page?
If some one can give me a solution, in which I create pages with views and then use the Panels module to alter this page (created with views) I will be happy with.
hmm...
If I understood you well, you're in page /user/%user, and here you are rendering a view that needs a link to "/user/%user/foo". If so, the you can use PHP code for the footer page of View in page /user/%user with something like this:
<?phpprint '<div class="more-link">'. l(t('more'), 'user/'. arg(1) .'/foo') .'</div>';
?>
I'm sorry but where can I
I'm sorry but where can I insert this code? Can't find it :-(
In views I have only "content pane" displays, there is no "page" display.
The "Footer" Input field of the "content pane" display in views can't handle php code.
Enable the PHP filter module
It can be found in "Core - optional" modules.
If you do not want to enable this module, but you can create a custom module, you can probably override a template related to the view in first page, and there you can render the "more" link as above.
Ok thank you. I'll have a
Ok thank you. I'll have a look at this module :)
best regards,
DrupalCuckoo
Ok I activated the "PHP
Ok I activated the "PHP Filter" module and it works just perfect! thank you very much :-)
Are there any security issues with this module?
Only if you give other users
Only if you give other users permission to use it
thanks!
I won't, I promise ;-)
It hasn't been mentioned
It hasn't been mentioned here, but I happen to be a fan of using preprocess here.
<?phpfunction THEME_preprocess_views_view(&$vars) {
if ($vars['view']->name == 'view_name' && $vars['view']->current_display = 'display_name') {
$vars['more'] = '<div class="more-link">' . l('LINK TEXT', 'panel/page/path') . '</div>';
}
}
?>
hi, sorry I wasn't able to
hi,
sorry I wasn't able to reply to you earlier.
This function would go into the which file? Can I use this in a custom module or does preprocess functions belong to the theme?
I don't like to spread functions and settings all around. It should be in one place (i.e. in a custom module which handle various kinds of settings).
Maybe you can explain a little bit :)
Thanks.