CCK fields dropdown list showing IDs instead of names

It's possible to theme the options and use cck's functions to get the proper display title. I don't know if there is any way to do this by default with Finder Views unless someone else has a suggestion.

You could start by implementing this theme function and debugging the two incoming variables, firstly you need to identify the correct $element before making any decision (usually by the 'finder_element_id'), and then look at what information is available about the result in the $option object, and then go from there.

function theme_finder_optionwidgets_select_option($option, $element) {
  return $option->{$option->field_name};
}

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What should I do to do what's posted in reply #2?

It's a theme function - http://drupal.org/node/477136
you have to put it in template.php and rename the theme_ part of the function name to your theme name

I can look into it but I wouldn't get my hopes up.

Yes the actual display value isn't available in the theme function, if it was this wouldn't be an issue, but the key value is there, and somehow the key value correlates to the display value you set, so you should be able to make that conversion somehow - perhaps CCK has some functions available to automate it.

The reason views does it is because of that little options screen that comes up in views after you pick a field. Actually if I found a way to get that options screen into finder it would solve a lot of problems, I'm just worried some of the options are very views specific and that will be an issue.
The other thing is also that you won't able to do something like autocomplete or search on the value of the field, only the key, so this feature would be misleading.

I really think the theme function is your best bet unless someone can suggest a clever patch.

<?php

/**
 * Theme a select option.
 *
 * @param $option
 *   The choice data object.
 * @param $element
 *   The finder element object.
 */
function theme_finder_optionwidgets_select_option($option, $element) {
  $values = content_allowed_values(content_fields('field_cck', 'page'))
  return $values[$option->{$option->field_name}];
}

?>

where 'field_cck' is the cck field and 'page' is the content type for which to check the settings - if you need to get these values dynamically it may be possible, but tricky, to derive it from data in the $option and $element objects but it may require a database lookup based on the nid.

If anyone has any ideas or more information that could enable us to use the cck value rather than the key in Views queries please post here - otherwise I don't think this is fixable unless we create our own 'cck finder' which I may have to do - but then it will be mutually exclusive to Views.

If anyone has any ideas or more information that could enable us to use the cck value rather than the key in Views queries please post here - otherwise I don't think this is fixable unless we create our own 'cck finder' which I may have to do - but then it will be mutually exclusive to Views.

If anyone has any ideas or more information that could enable us to use the cck value rather than the key in Views queries please post here - otherwise I don't think this is fixable unless we create our own 'cck finder' which I may have to do - but then it will be mutually exclusive to Views.

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Same problem here, hope someone can help!

I was able to get a select list that was outputting IDs instead of names to output the names by adding this to the "Rewrite options" field:

$node = node_load($value);
return $node->title;

I'm stuck on one thing, though - the names aren't in any recognizable order. Is there something I can add to my Rewrite code that'll sort these options alphabetically?

Just needed to rearrange my sort order options on the view itself, not in the rewrite code.

For a CCK field named "field_foo_bar" with both keys and values, to show the values in the Finder form instead of the keys, put this PHP code into the Finder element's rewrite options:

<?php
$allowed_values = content_allowed_values(content_fields('field_foo_bar'));
return $allowed_values[$key];
?>

I solved this using following rewrite code:

<?php
    $id = $option->{$option->field_name};
    $term = taxonomy_get_term($id);
    return $term->name;
?>

HEY_GERMANO ... You're a lifesaver. Bless ye

This helped for my case. I used CKK on OG. Multi selection of taxonomy driven view did returned only IDs. It works now.
Thanks Nedim Hadzimahmutovic.