Views filter block to apply to multiple views?

By modstore on 19 Aug 2011 at 03:09 UTC

I want to create a views exposed filter that can work with a number of different views.

Basically I want to be able to select a taxonomy term, and then whatever view page i am on, it will be filtered by the selected term(s).

Anyone know if this is possible?

Comments

Instead of using a view block

nevets commented 19 August 2011 at 03:27

Instead of using a view block just expose the filter and it will be available on the page.

I have exposed the filter,

modstore commented 19 August 2011 at 05:30

I have exposed the filter, and selected to have exposed filter in block. But I want to know if there is a way to have an exposed filter block apply to a number of different views.

After thinking about it more though, I think this is not possible. I think I will write a module to do it another way.

Actually, I'm pretty sure

coreyp_1 commented 20 August 2011 at 05:32

Actually, I'm pretty sure that it is possible.

When you expose a filter, you can also tell it the name of the variable to use in the $_POST (or $_GET) variable. It is called the "Filter Identifier". If you use the same identifier for the different exposed filters, then they will behave accordingly.

Note, if you use this approach, you will also have to "hide" the filter for all but the first view. You do this be telling the subsequent views to display their filter in a block, and then you never show that block on the page.