I have a view that uses the Term ID argument. When a user visits the page /posts/all/popular, I would like the title of the view to read "Most Popular Posts". When a user visits the page /posts//popular, I would like the title of the view to read "Most Popular Posts in ".

I set the default title to "Most Popular Posts" and the Term ID argument title to "Most Popular Posts in %1", but when I display the view with the default argument my title either reads "Most Popular Posts in All", or just "Most Popular Posts in", depending on what I put in the Wildcard Title field for my argument. So, how do I get rid of the "in" and get the view to use my default title when the argument is "all"?

I've been searching the issue queue and I came across some related posts, but I couldn't get any of the suggestions to work (or understand half of them, actually). I'm more designer than programmer, so if someone could explain what's required to do this in plain English I'd appreciate it. Is there a function I can put in my template.php file? Is there a function I can put somewhere in the view itself?

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merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

There's no way to have a title differ based on the argument, I don't think. Perhaps you could do something in the argument validator with php code where you do a display->set_option('title') but I'm not sure that would work.

jstoller’s picture

jstoller
he/him
commented
Status: Closed (won't fix) » Needs review

After some more digging I came across #365418: Setting the View-Title programmatically in Views2, which lead me to a possible solution:

  1. I entered "Most Popular Posts" as the default title for the the view.
  2. I added a Taxonomy: Term ID argument for the view.
  3. I set the argument validator to PHP code and entered the following in the text field:
if($argument && $term = taxonomy_get_term($argument)) {
  $handler->options['title'] = 'Most Popular Posts in '.$term->name;
}
return TRUE;

Is there anything inherently wrong/questionable with this solution? Is there a better way to do this? If you don't see any problems with this than I recommend adding it to the documentation for Views.

dawehner’s picture

dawehner
Primary language German
commented
Status: Needs review » Fixed

I don't think that support question can need review :)

If it works fine, thats perfect :)

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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