url alias for View filter

By chianti on 14 Feb 2011 at 23:57 UTC

Sorry, I can't find the answer to this anywhere...

One of my exposed View filters has the url:
domain.com/news?by-area=nw

news = the default 'page' for the view where all 'news' nodes are listed
by-area = the label given to the exposed filter
nw = the CCK 'key' for the field-label 'north west' Eg. in CCK the entry is: nw|North West

I can make a menu item point to: news?by-area=nw and it displays the filtered list without the user having to use the Views drop-down.

Everything works. Thanks Drupal people. :)

Now I'd really like people to be able to bookmark or remember urls like domain.com/news/north-west, instead of the filter's own cryptic domain.com/news?by-area=nw url, but the Path Alias Module says 'The path is either invalid or you do not have access to it'.

I don't quite understand why?
Is there a way to do this?

Thanks.

Comments

Views Arguments

mcfilms commented 15 February 2011 at 03:43

I'm going to post what I DO know, but I'm pretty sure you'll have a follow-up question. I hope someone can pick it up from there.

What you are looking for is an "Argument." In views you would set your page to simply domain.com/news. In the argument area you would add the "by Area" field. (I'm assuming your content type has a cck field where you are setting this region.) So now if you link to domain.com/news/se (or south-east -- whatever you called it) your page should show you all the news for the Southeast.

If this isn't enough help, please watch a couple of videos on Views Arguments.

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