Hi,

I am wondering if it is possible to keep the Views search results available to the users even after they navigate away from the original result page generated by Views. Here's how it may work:

1. Users use the Views search form to search content
2. Users get a list of results generated by Views
3. Users click on results and navigate away from that result page
4. Users read the page content. Same list of result generated from step 1 shows in a block on page showing from step 4.

I have no idea how this is possible but I feel that it may worth asking. Any help will be much appreciated.

BB

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joachim’s picture

joachim commented

You could load up the links in your view with the same query options (the ?foo=bar etc) as your view, and then have your block display work with those (though I'm not sure if block displays can do that...)

merlinofchaos’s picture

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

If you set the exposed filters to remember, you can also query the session. You'd have to use an early hook (hook_views_pre_build I think) to move the variables from the page view to the block view, probably. Also you'd really want to do some kind of caching to avoid running the search every page, I suppose.

You won't be able to do this without figuring out something like the above, though. Good luck!