setting views exposed filter default to

By johnhanley on 15 Jan 2009 at 09:03 UTC

I'm sorry if this is documented somewhere, but it's been a long day and I can't seem to find the answer to something that should be super easy and obvious.

I have a views exposed filter that contains a handful of taxonomy terms and need to set the filter default to <any>. However the exposed filter always defaults to the first term following <any>. I have tried this with the "remember" option enabled and disabled, but it doesn't make a difference. The filter itself works great--just can't set the default to <any>.

Can someone give me a nudge? Thanks!

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If I'm not mistaken, the

marcvangend

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commented 15 January 2009 at 11:53

If I'm not mistaken, the 'Optional' checkbox does this, but only when you specify no filter values and do not select 'Limit list to selected items'.

This is correct, you just

scott.browne commented 25 March 2014 at 19:09

This is correct, you just need to also use CTRL and clicky all the individual items in the list; specifically SELECT ALL. You will also need to uncheck required just above the label area to utilize any. This will give you "Any" and default as it.

Scott Browne
www.coverclubmedia.com

You are correct

FrontBurner commented 15 January 2009 at 15:04

This should be very easy but isn't. I still haven't figured out how to accomplish this in D6. If you select "Optional" it should default to "Any" and not whatever the first item on the list is. Users expect to see all results and then be given the ability to refine the results by selecting a taxonomy filter.

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also can´t find out.

FlymastaFlex commented 22 January 2009 at 16:28

I cant find the right hook for it...

This worked for me...

3duardo commented 25 January 2009 at 14:22

Okay, so I came here looking for the same info. After noodling around a little more I found a solution that works for me.

My view now defaults to - Any - on each page render

My settings:

[Operator] = is one of
[Options] = uncheck all items

Then, at bottom, check [Optional] and [Force single]

Now if I can just figure out a way to display a message if the user selection option has no result to display :-)

empty text

johnhanley commented 25 January 2009 at 17:40

3duardo, thanks for sharing your findings.

Use the "Empty text" input for the corresponding page view to define the empty results text.

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Duh! - slaps self

3duardo commented 30 January 2009 at 18:45

I do this for all other views when appropriate but went brain-dead on my first exposed filter view.
Thanks

+1 for this solution. Note

gnosis commented 12 February 2009 at 20:30

+1 for this solution. Note that you might not notice right away that it's working if you have "Remember" checked. But if you kill your session and reload the page, you should see that Any is now the default.

Thanks

anou

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commented 12 May 2009 at 08:32

Selecting "nothing" to see everything is finally so obvious ;-) Thanks for this solution. Works great !

David THOMAS
http://www.smol.org

"uncheck all items"?

joeeastham commented 17 May 2009 at 18:37

I'm struggling with the same issue and cannot find the "uncheck all items" option you mention. Is that the correct label? Thanks.

solved

joeeastham commented 17 May 2009 at 18:46

I didn't realize you meant that you actually deselected all the options in the select field that contains the cck terms. This thread set me straight: http://drupal.org/node/339384#comment-1188047

Sorry. Sunday morning and no caffeine makes Jack a slow boy.

solution

johnhanley commented 18 May 2009 at 01:03

Yes, you are indeed correct. The solution to default an exposed filter to <Any> is to deselect all the options and leave "Limit list to selected items" unchecked.

Thanks

gourav.yadav commented 20 April 2017 at 09:15

This worked for me D7 .. :)

The only drawback I can see

jct commented 9 September 2009 at 19:32

The only drawback I can see from this solution is that there are cases where you do not want all items to show in the list (ie content types that aren't available to all users).

Thanks you!

jweedman commented 10 February 2010 at 19:02

Saved me a bunch of time! Seems obvious when you hear how to do it!

-jweedman

Worked!

gregaltuna commented 8 September 2010 at 15:59

ROCK! Thanks for this A+++++ solution. So simple, yet so tricky.

Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Altuna". You're Mr. Altuna. I'm the Greg. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Gregness, or uh, Greggie, or El Gregerino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

That worked for me too.

thomasaaron commented 13 February 2015 at 07:29

Thank you. I'd been fooling with that one for a couple hours. :(

thank you

bwoods commented 25 June 2009 at 18:02

I was looking for the exact same thing ... didn't consider unchecking all of the options!

Any way to have the search appear

Bernardine commented 30 November 2009 at 15:55

without the results on the first view? ie until the user actually selects and submits? When I hit my search page now I get all the items available beneath the search/sort boxes without any action from me.

second this request

mbworks commented 21 December 2009 at 06:16

I also have a view that I want to remain empty until the user starts selecting - I don't want all the view results to appear automatically - is there a way?

I try this and get the following error:

mrlava commented 5 January 2010 at 18:52

I create an Exposed filter for a Taxonomy: Term
I selected "is one of" and didn't check any of the boxes
Below that I checked "Force Single" and "Optional"
I click Update
I get the following error: An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site administrator.

I look at the log and it shows the following:

Type form
Message Illegal choice 0 in tid_1 element.
Severity error

If I save it, it then shows the default as < any> but is highlighted red and giving the error: An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site administrator.

I have an exposed filter above it that does the exact same thing... and works... I replicate it with anything (even the same term) and it gives me that error.

fixed

mrlava commented 5 January 2010 at 19:57

this was a conflict due to the "better select" module, after uninstalling the module all worked well again

Keep Better Select

simonswiss commented 28 February 2010 at 11:44

Note that you can also make it work while keeping better select (a great module!) enabled:

Go to Site Configuration ---> Better Select, from there you can tick the "Node form only" box, which displays better select checkboxes only on node forms.

That sorts the conflict! :-)

Try renaming the Filter

iancawthorne commented 15 March 2010 at 14:36

Try renaming the Filter identifier to x or x2. This seems to do the trick for me. I was getting this problem with and without the better select module.

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Replacing the <Any> label

harryadu commented 22 March 2010 at 19:52

Do you have any idea how to replace the label with the Filter name or any label of my choice? I actually want the filter to display the filter name as default instead of ""...

Thanks,

Renaming filter did the trick!

zinkzinkzink commented 31 May 2010 at 18:54

Thanks djmystic82, changing the filter identifier from 'typ' to xx solved the issue for me!

worked for me too. thanks

fadgadget commented 6 October 2012 at 01:26

worked for me too. thanks

Or you can disable Better

masher commented 7 April 2010 at 11:40

Or you can disable Better Select whilst setting up your views and then re-enable it when done.

I had to do it that way as I wanted checkboxes in User Profile taxonomy terms, with "Node form only" selected I lost the checkboxes as its not a node

This simply doesn't work for

mokargas commented 22 April 2010 at 06:49

This simply doesn't work for me if I have an argument set to a taxonomy term from a different vocab. Defaults to the first term always.

I have two arguments. The first one is one of two terms, either male or female from a Gender vocab, the second is the Country subfield from a Location CCK.

If I set the exposed filter to another vocab (call it Boutique Categories) using Taxonomy: Term ID exposed filter it will always default to the first category in my Boutique Categories vocab, regardless if I select it or not.

Let's say I add the filter and not expose it, I get this query:

SELECT node.nid AS nid FROM node node  WHERE (node.status <> 0) AND (node.type in ('boutique'))

As soon as I expose it, with settings Force Single: On, Optional: On and Is one of: (no selection) the views query becomes

SELECT node.nid AS nid FROM node node  INNER JOIN term_node term_node ON node.vid = term_node.vid WHERE (node.status <> 0) AND (node.type in ('boutique')) AND (term_node.tid = 7)

You'll note that now term_node.tid = 7 exists, as if by magic. This is the tid of the first term in the term selection list, despite having nothing selected. Hence my view always defaults to this, and never defaults to Any.

Anybody have any ideas with this one? Is there something I'm not getting?

I should note, this issue

mokargas commented 23 April 2010 at 01:05

I should note, this issue disappears if Force Single is set to off, and the query also changes. (ie multi-select box)

Same problem... somehow fixed

lucidD commented 21 May 2010 at 16:37

Lucky number 7! My magic number was 40, kinda boring. Maybe if you rename the "Filter identifier" field in the exposed filter it will fix itself. For example changing "term_node" to "term_somethingelse". I'm not sure why, but this worked for me. However, if I change too many settings with "Force single" turned on, it starts doing the same thing, but with different numbers.

Some more information on my

lucidD commented 21 May 2010 at 16:46

Some more information on my settings in case it would be helpful:

Operator: "Is one of" (with everything selected)
Reduce duplicates: ON
Unlock operator: OFF
Optional: ON
Force single: ON
Remember: OFF
Limit list to selected items: ON

Second that on the settings

mexicoder commented 19 September 2010 at 19:56

Limit list to selected items: ON

worked for me

Work, but only when..

nelslynn commented 12 May 2011 at 17:46

These settings work, but only after I change the default "Filter Identifier" to something other than the default. Strange.

Same here, the above

flashon commented 4 January 2013 at 01:29

Same here, the above solutions didn't work for me until I changed the default "Filter Identifier".

Thanks for this solution

gabrielZ commented 18 February 2014 at 08:47

This worked for me

Thankyou

glynnr commented 10 March 2011 at 12:20

Works great. Thank you Eduardo.

thank you

aleksandar.jakovljevic commented 17 October 2011 at 13:05

Thank you, this helped me a lot. Solved me a problem I couldn't solve for a month!

Thanks 3duardo

tentonjim commented 19 April 2012 at 18:59

Excellent painless solution. Thank you!

Making Any be the default selection in Drupal 7 Exposed Filter

staceyrice commented 5 April 2013 at 18:34

I had this problem in Drupal 7 and stumbled upon this thread. It's a little different, so I thought I'd post what I figured out from hints about D6 in this thread.

Add a filter and Expose filter to visitors.

Choose Single filter, give it a label, choose "Is one of" under Operator, and have no terms selected/highlighted in the "Select terms from vocabulary" box. The only option checked under the vocab box is "Display error message."

This setting defaults to in the dropdown list.

Thank you for taking the time

Nicolino77 commented 27 April 2015 at 16:04

Thank you for taking the time to summarize this for D7 users.

Thank you!

bramvandenbulcke commented 9 June 2015 at 20:05

The above solution works perfectly. I could CTRL- or CMD-click to unselect the items in the box.

I wouldn't have found it without your help. Thanks!

Added missing help text

colan

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commented 23 June 2015 at 17:11

The ticket for this is #339384: Default option <Any> not set in exposed filters when terms are selected. With the new help text, this should be clearer.

you are right @staceyb dont

qqboy commented 19 September 2017 at 08:11

you are right @staceyb dont choose any one in Options

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Thanks for these instructions

MariaWebIdeas commented 1 August 2015 at 11:13

@staceyb Thanks for these instructions, worked great!

setting views exposed filter default to <any>

bulkseocontents commented 1 August 2015 at 11:57

This is right, you simply need to additionally utilize CTRL and clicky all the individual things in the rundown; particularly SELECT ALL. You will likewise need to uncheck obliged simply over the mark region to use any. This will give you "Any" and default as it.

Hello,

Samy-DT commented 10 December 2015 at 12:59

Hello,
I have the same question but the answer given don't work for me, here are my filter exposed settings:

single filter type, labelled, is part of, no selection at all in the vocabulary box, not selection at all under this box.

However, the default radio button is the one just after the "any" button.

Any ideas ?
Bye

setting views exposed filter default to <any>

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