Hi,

We have a requirement to build a Drupal site which displays Views filters that will look like the attached file.

I'm pretty confident it can be done but before I go back to the client and say yes, I would appreciate some peer feedback. Can this be done? If so, I'd really appreciate to hear some clever, creative pointers as to how you'd go about it.

Have a great weekend.

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filter_panel.jpg328.83 KBPatrick Nelson

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merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Fixed

This can be done but it would require significant use of hook_form_alter to reformat the exposed form the way you need it.

Also, the checkboxes to control sorting probably cannot be done without extensive work because Views' exposed sort only lets you choose a single field. Also bear in mind that FAPI and Views have a few issues with checkboxes, in that you can't tell if checkboxes are truly unchecked because they aren't actually sent and FAPI handles this a little strangely when it comes to using GET forms where we can't be sure the form was actually submitted or not. So you will run into issues there that you'll have to work around.

So ultimately...you can pull this off but expect to work pretty hard on it.

Patrick Nelson’s picture

Patrick Nelson commented

Thanks Earl, good to know. Really appreciate the input.

Regards

Patrick

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.