"How to do" Views Filters Selective [#1793616]

I am struggling with setting up the Views Filters Selective.

As others have commented limiting an exposed filter based on taxonomies is annoying when the drop-down displays all taxonomy values without taking into account the current view's filtering - and leaving the exposed filter with useless "empty" taxonomies.

Then I learned about the Views Hack. Installed and enabled the module hoping this would solve my problem in an instant. Now on day 10 I am still struggling with figuring out if I am on the right track with regards to choice of drupal module to solve my exposed filter challenge.

Now I am back to square one, asking for help. If anyone is aware of a good walk-through-description with setting up Views Filters Selective, please let me know.

Regards,

Svend

Comments

Comment #1

STNyborg commented 26 September 2012 at 07:08

Has anyone had success with implementing the Views Filters Selective in Drupal 7.x | Views 3.x? If so how did you come about doing it?

--- Correction ---
I found out that other people simply selected Selective Exposed Filtersas an option. However this does not show up in my settings under Exposed form style.

Similar thread here: http://drupal.org/node/1787346

Comment #2

danielnolde commented 2 October 2012 at 07:52

There's no "selective" setting option on existing filters - instead, to use views selective filters, you have to select the "... (selective)" variant right when _adding_ the filter, see http://drupal.org/node/1787346#comment-6530958

Comment #3

danielnolde commented 2 October 2012 at 07:52

Status:

Active

» Closed (works as designed)

Comment #4

STNyborg commented 3 October 2012 at 09:10

Status:

Closed (works as designed)

» Active

Perfect - that actually solved the limitation issue. Now I see my exposed filter list only available values from the current view.

However, by choosing the "... (selective)" taxonomy field, all I get in the dropdown are the taxonomy ids (TID). Is there an easy method to get the actual taxonomy values instead of the TIDs?

Comment #5

sioux commented 3 October 2012 at 15:20

Thanks for the tip on selecting the correct filter: Content (selective) that was very helpful, but does not solve my design issue. Example: I have a list of 100 restaurants that can be filtered by location, cuisine, and service. Changing the filter eliminated my default list of restaurants, (none appear- I would like the default list to appear), and the 3 selective menus only shows TID. Which settings will restore the default listings, and how can I get the choices to be names instead of TID. Thank you.