Hide block if view is empty

By Polyspiral on 16 Nov 2011 at 13:44 UTC

Hi, Im using Drupal 7 and I thought it would do this automatically, I have a block with a view in it and it wont hide the block if there is nothing in it, does anyone know what setting I need for this?

thanks

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1. Go to the advanced tab of

pixelsweatshop commented 16 November 2011 at 23:40

1. Go to the advanced tab of you view
2. Add contextual filters
3. Select Global: Null
4. When the filter value is NOT available: Select 'Hide view'

If I could "like" this, I would!

aniebel commented 7 April 2012 at 13:17

Thank you nicoz, this saved me!

Make that two likes!

groston commented 12 January 2014 at 17:59

Make that two likes!

Thank You for the hint!!!

Nick Fedchik commented 11 April 2012 at 09:49

Thank You for the hint!!!

It hide blocks. But anyway.
In my case I made a blocks to show some fields if a node on a node page.
I have two context filters: Content:NID (Content ID from URL) then add another Global:NULL (Hide content), but blocks became hidden anyway even they have a content (text in my case).

rearrange

scotwith1t

Birmingham, AL

commented 12 April 2012 at 20:04

Switch the order/weight of the filters (click rearrange) and see if that helps?

You should use a validation

halth

Portuguese, Brazil

Brazil

commented 16 August 2012 at 22:16

@Nick Fedchik On the "Content ID from URL" contextual filter you should check the option below: "When the filter value IS available or a default is provided -> Specify validation criteria".

On the Validator option, choose PHP Code.
On the PHP validate code put your custom validation code.
E.g.: Check if some mandatory field is empty.

In my case the value of the PHP validate code field was:

$node = node_load($argument);
return (is_array($node->field_fotos) && count($node->field_fotos) > 0);

And then, in the Action to take if filter value does not validate option, choose: Hide View.

Hope this works for all you guys! =)

--
Heitor Althmann
Drupal Developer

It works!

ptocheia commented 31 August 2012 at 18:06

This works perfectly, thanks for posting this!

I'm also looking for a

Tino commented 4 September 2012 at 18:09

I'm also looking for a solution for this problem. Imho this should definitely be a standard feature in Views, without the need for PHP coding.

For this solution to work in Drupal 7 <?php and ?> should be left out:

$node = node_load($argument);
return (is_array($node->field_fieldname) && count($node->field_fieldname) > 0);

Doing it that way it "works". But on every page where the view (block) has no results, I get an error message:

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$field_fieldname in eval() (line 2 of ../sites/all/modules/views/plugins/views_plugin_argument_validate_php.inc(53) : eval()'d code).

How can we fix this?

Dropped the PHP code solution

Tino commented 4 September 2012 at 18:27

Dropped the PHP code solution on the contextual filter completely.
Instead I added a filter criterium to the view:

Content: Field fieldname:fid (not empty)

Solved! :)

Yes, this works great.

gaëlg

he/him

French

Lille, France

commented 30 October 2012 at 09:15

Yes, this works great.

Thanks Tino

giorgio79 commented 3 April 2013 at 06:23

Thanks Tino

My Drupal sites:

Perfecto!

elvismdev commented 21 May 2013 at 14:42

This worked better for me, no php notices dropped to log and block totally hidden if no content to show. ;)

You win a beer !

Anonymous (not verified) commented 30 June 2013 at 15:32

Thk Tino for great tip!

Works perfectly and less work

madelyncruz commented 6 April 2014 at 23:17

Works perfectly and less work.. Thank you much Tino... I don't have to use any javascript just to hide the block when the field is empty :)

+1 to Tino

justinthughes commented 2 April 2014 at 03:04

Thank you for this!

Or use an isset?

teedave commented 17 February 2015 at 21:47

For some reason "added a filter criterium to the view" didn't work for me. It could be because I have 2 fields (see below comment for that scenario).
I just added an isset

$node = node_load($argument);
if (isset($node->field_fotos) && is_array($node->field_fotos) && count($node->field_fotos) > 0) {
  return TRUE;
}
else {
  return FALSE;
}

Hope this helps someone.

it's Help!!!

andymark.bel@gmail.com commented 2 April 2015 at 03:26

thanks for helping, this is all what i needed

This worked for me, thanks!

ashopin commented 10 March 2015 at 14:02

This worked for me, thanks!

Field (not empty)

Erik Olson commented 22 April 2015 at 16:41

Field (not empty) worked for me. Thanks a bunch!

Worked for me

bryanmanalo commented 18 February 2017 at 07:22

Worked for me. Thanks. I don't like to unnecessarily add php in views

Tino +1

dlaufer commented 14 July 2017 at 19:49

@tino Worked for me! Not sure why I was overthinking it!

Elegant solution

Geert_Everardus commented 16 January 2020 at 12:55

Thanks Tino! 7 years later still superhelpful! :D

@nicoz steps did not work for

themorebeautifulworld commented 17 March 2016 at 09:12

@nicoz steps did not work for me. That made the block disappear from everywhere.

@scotself idea to rearrange the filters did not work. Same problem.

@tino step to include a filter criteria for Content: Field fieldname (not empty) DID WORK. Thank you!

thx @halth It's working

sebby commented 3 June 2013 at 12:43

thx @halth

It's working perfectly with a view using a block display.
his argument is content ID from URL.

Thank you halth

wooody commented 5 September 2013 at 07:42

Thank you halth

use a validation

bepnhahang commented 7 September 2013 at 06:49

Thanks. I'm working it.

Tks @halth

lesleyfernandes commented 24 October 2013 at 19:26

Tks @halth

Lesley Fernandes Moreira
Web Consultant | Drupal Developer | Entrepreneur
www.lesleyfernandes.com

Two fields?

blamege1 commented 20 November 2013 at 20:38

How would I accomplish this with a view that has 2 fields? The above code works for one field, but I'm not a PHP guy, so I'm not sure how I would edit that solution to reflect two separate field values. For instance, I have a view with an image and a summary. I need it to display when I have 1 of those values or 2 of those values, but not display when I have 0 values available. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A little edit to my original post. Hope this helps…

This works great when their is only one field

$node = node_load($argument);
return (is_array($node->field_fotos) && count($node->field_fotos) > 0);

how to do this with field_fotos and field_summary?

Two fields

teedave commented 17 February 2015 at 21:43

I had the same request and solved it by:

$node = node_load($argument);
if ((isset($node->field_fotos) || isset($node->field_summary)) && (is_array($node->field_fotos) && count($node->field_fotos) > 0) || (is_array($node->field_summary) && count($node->field_summary) > 0)) {
  return TRUE;
}
else {
  return FALSE;
}

Note that these fields are either or, not both required, so if one has a value and the other doesn't, it will show the one it has. To make them both required, change the or's - || - to and's - &&

Two fields

gmaxwelled commented 18 February 2016 at 14:42

You can also do this in the Views interface by adding the two filter criteria and then clicking the down arrow and the "And/Or, Rearrange" button. Then click "Create new filter group" and drag both your field conditions into it. Finally, change the operator in the new filter group to "Or".

This works as an inclusive OR. You might need to use code or add more filter groups if you want an XOR.

Perfect (well, almost)

jppi_Stu commented 16 May 2016 at 05:00

Thank you, @gmaxwelled -- this was a clean solution with no quirky, custom coding or obscure, non-obvious settings. I just did this in Drupal 8 and finally got the view/block to disappear when none of a set of five optional fields had data. The only grief along the way was that dragging and dropping the fields to the second filter group failed miserably (something I may submit as a bug report if I can document it well enough). I had to show row weights and move the filter fields to the second group that way. Once I did that, it was smooth sailing.

Thank you very much Tino and

amuli commented 26 August 2016 at 09:12

Thank you very much Tino and Gavin : works like a charm :-)

Awesome

ranjeesh commented 10 July 2014 at 19:38

Thank you very much...after a couple of weeks of wondering and pondering I found your solution very helpful...not sure why I didnt find this earlier.

Thanks!

ramonoak commented 21 November 2012 at 17:09

This give-me the solution for my problem, thanks a lot dude!

Thanks! This works.

rroose commented 4 March 2013 at 09:00

Thanks! This works.

Still accurate?

jeffrod commented 20 May 2015 at 18:37

Is this answer still accurate? This contextual filter is hiding the block regardless of what data the query returns. In fact, the preview panel says "Query was not run." It appears this doesn't concern itself with the query. It always hides the block.

My understanding is that when the query returns no data, this CF will hide the block. When the query returns data, this CF would be inactive and the block would be visible..

Thank you

shobhit_juyal commented 15 August 2016 at 05:32

It saved my time.

Thank you for this, very

lroedal commented 10 April 2017 at 12:48

Thank you for this, very helpful! :)

Help

wouterb038 commented 14 May 2012 at 16:05

Ik have the same problem...

Rearange is not the solution

Can somewhan please help me

If I understand this

mortona2k commented 24 May 2012 at 20:17

If I understand this technique, the view is only hidden when there is no contextual input? In my case, the input is valid, but there are no results. How do I hide any block content (wrappers) from being displayed?

The other Andrew Morton

Did you ever figured it out?

enrique.delgado commented 15 August 2012 at 14:00

I also have the same problem. A view displayed inside a block. Nothing to show in the view, but the block is there, just showing it's title and then empty inside.

Hiding a view block with no content

shopoftheworld commented 29 November 2012 at 13:25

I figured out how to do this without using PHP validation combining the techniques above.

This is for a related links view that is relevant to the current node (so may not work for other scenarios) sometimes there are related links - sometimes not

Create your view as a block
Using a contextual filter - filter by nid and provide a default argument of ContentID from URL.
Provide an override block title in the contextual filter for when a default is provided.
Make sure your block has NO Title (not )

Add a field filter against one of the fields you want in your view to make sure its not empty like this

Content: Related links:title (not empty)

That worked for me

Thanks

Thanks a lot for your

lovelykaushik86 commented 16 March 2013 at 05:21

Thanks a lot for your solution It saved my time

it works!

nasia123 commented 6 September 2013 at 23:12

this works, it is the best solution provided in this thread

Thanks shopoftheworld, your

GotYourGuy commented 2 December 2013 at 02:19

Thanks shopoftheworld, your solution worked for me.

Thanks nicoz

rakesh.gectcr

he/him

English

Manchester

commented 18 June 2012 at 10:43

Yeah!, its working.

---
Kind regards,

Thank you,
Rakesh James

Thank you so much

thomasmuirhead commented 1 September 2012 at 14:41

Thanks for the specify validation criteria tip @heitoralthmann - really really helpful.

I was having this problem with a view of referenced nodes. I used it to hide the view if there were no nodes referenced. Had been a pain having the title showing without anything in it before that.

Hooray!

nickbumgarner commented 27 March 2014 at 13:00

Good information, thanks OP!

Nicholas A. Bumgarner
Web Developer
Inclind, Inc.

Hide block if view is empty

Ahmad Sawaie commented 4 August 2014 at 12:39

Hide block if view is empty

from Filter criteria--> Add-->Filter--->Global---> Global: Fields comparison .And Select the condition

Hide view's title in a panel when the view is empty

jordimateubesancon commented 23 January 2015 at 18:18

Not exactly the same case but similar. What I need is to hide content pane when the view has no results included the title of the view (by the way the view has a contextual filter Content: Nid that takes the argument form the url). The easiest way I've found to fix it is to add the fields of the view as filters and select the Is not empty (NOT NULL) operator as filter criterion for each one.

I have the same scenario but

game commented 5 July 2015 at 22:23

I have the same scenario but for a multi value field this is not working :-(

GAMe

http://www.aprox.co.uk

What a pain in the ass. Of

jay.lee.bio commented 15 November 2015 at 13:57

What a pain in the ass. Of all the solutions mentioned here, yours is the only one that worked for me. Thanks!

____________________

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Saved my ***

sillo commented 15 June 2015 at 11:42

Just what i needed - Thanks alot!

Im having the same issue and

game commented 5 July 2015 at 22:22

Im having the same issue and cant get this to work for a multivalue field... its driving me crazy :-/ Just need the title to hide with the view and contextual filter. :-(

GAMe

http://www.aprox.co.uk

Just to update I did do this

game commented 7 July 2015 at 00:03

Just to update I did do this in the end by not having a title set and then used the rewrite field option to add the title in above the content... just had to stop and think for a moment :-)

GAMe

http://www.aprox.co.uk

Something I never knew in

niklp commented 22 October 2015 at 11:11

Something I never knew in views. TYVM to the original commenter.

Alternative solution

krystalcode commented 30 November 2016 at 21:23

For me the main problem was coming from the fact that the "views-view.tpl.php" template renders a wrapping div even if there is nothing to render inside it. A solution that should work in all cases is to override the default template and conditionally render the template only if there is something to render. The solution should be generic because it looks not only for content, but for attachments, header or footer, no-results behaviours defined etc as well. It should safely apply to all views that use the theme.

In your theme's template_preprocess_views_view() function (create it if it doesn't exist) add the following:

function MYTHEME_preprocess_views_view(&$variables) {
  $variables['content_exists'] = $variables['title_prefix'] ||
    $variables['title'] ||
    $variables['title_suffix'] ||
    $variables['header'] ||
    $variables['exposed'] ||
    $variables['attachment_before'] ||
    $variables['rows'] ||
    $variables['empty'] ||
    $variables['pager'] ||
    $variables['attachment_after'] ||
    $variables['more'] ||
    $variables['footer'] ||
    $variables['feed_icon']
  ;
}

Copy the views-view.tpl.php template from the views module (in the sites/all/modules/views/theme folder) and add it to your theme folder. Wrap the whole template (after the comments section) with the following code:

<?php if ($content_exists): ?>
// Template content here ...
<?php endif; ?>

Clear your caches so that the new template and preprocess function are loaded.

Easiest Solutions to achieve this

umeshpatil commented 5 January 2017 at 12:56

I don't want to write PHP in view as I dont feel its good(this is purely my view, i just don't like writing PHP in views).
So I tried other solutions from above list but they did not work for me except the only solution worked for me is jordimateubesancon's TYSM for that.
Let me explain what I did for those who will ran into this problem.

1. Add a FILTER CRITERIA
2. Select the same field that you are displaying under fields
3. Select the Operator as "Is not empty(NOT NULL)"
4. Save it and its done.

Cheers!! ;)

Easy and it works

walking-bird commented 17 January 2017 at 18:54

Just wanted to say that this solution worked for me, thank you very much!

Work great for me ...

slown commented 26 January 2017 at 09:42

Thank's a lot umeshpatil, it works perfectly in this way.

Thanks a lot umesh.

shuva.15 commented 7 April 2017 at 11:42

Thanks a lot umesh.
Perfect solution without the involvement of code.
Once again, thanks.

Hi,

maxplus commented 19 June 2017 at 08:54

Hi,
adding a filter and moving the view title to a textfield in my view header, solved my problem.
(if not moving the view title to the view header, the title is still displayed)

Thanks!

commented 10 October 2017 at 20:36

If anyone search for it, it's called "Hide block if the view output is empty" and you can find it between "Other" options inside "Advanced" fieldset (only on block displays).

Hide block if view is empty

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