I have a situation were I'm trying to display a view within a mini panel. I've successfully added the view to the mini panel but I am unable to get the contextual filters to work. I've added the node as a required context for the mini panel, and within the configuration I'm selecting the correct field (context). For some reason the context does not seem to make it through to the view because the view is not limiting the results. I added a field in addition to the view, just to make sure the mini panel is getting the node context, which it is. Is there a step I'm missing? Is this type of scenario supported by views / panels?

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dereckd commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Ok, I think this was a misunderstanding of how panels works on my part. I was able to get it to work by changing the style of the view, to view pane and changing the "arguments input" to "from context". If I understand correctly, contextual filters expects and argument (which is kinda strange because they are called contextual filters). By using view pane, you can essentially make the pane convert the context into the argument.