I'm really just looking for some clarification/confirmation of how this works. It's pretty confusing and took me a bit to figure out how to pass arguments to my views.

Let's say I've created a Content Pane display of a View that takes an argument.

When I Add Content -> I can choose either Views Panes or Views, my Content Pane display is listed on both, and if I choose Views Panes, I can't send any arguments. When I choose Views, then I CAN send my arguments (in a very easy, awesome, way).

What is the point of this Content Pane stuff not taking arguments? I'm confused by its presence when I can select the same stuff from the full Views screen and send arguments and do other options. thanks in advance!!

- Lems

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merlinofchaos’s picture

Component: Views panes » Documentation
Category: support » task

They are two different ways of doing things, and in a way it's tailored very much to how you want your site administration to work.

The 'Views' section just lists all views. (It can be turned off too). It makes them all available and provides the most generic interface possible. The problem with it is that you might have content editors who aren't really site builders who can manage your panels. Particularly if you're using something like OG Panels that lets people build panels on top of OG. That gets way too complicated for them.

So Views Panes allows you to customize views *before* they get to Panels. And you can control what arguments they get, but it's controlled in the view display itself. Check out the settings in the Views UI. You can control what contexts it wants for the arguments, and what settings are changeable in the UI.

This needs to be better documented somewhere within...actually it's within CTools I suppose, but possibly Panels as well.

merlinofchaos’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Folding this text into here http://drupal.org/node/887560#comment-3355350 so we can close this issue.