It would be wonderful if the customfield dialog box allowed one to specify a field name that could then be addressed by views filters.

Until that happens, is there any way to use the Views UI to point a filter at a Customfield that concatenates all the data in various User profile fields?

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bramface’s picture

bramface commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Sorry - I understand now that this is impossible! I solved my issue creating a calculated field in CCK concatenating all the profile field values, and saving the data. This produced a field Views could filter without displaying.

For anyone else - that's the way.

weizrd’s picture

weizrd commented
Category: support » feature
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

that's a tip that indeed applies well for static values, but I have a time-based computed field and cck computed field doesn't get updated unless I update the node itself - which in 2000+ nodes it's too performance unfriendly to do every day.
This module does compute exactly the way i want it, only when i access the view - but I still need to filter the data based on that computed field by views.

Any other ideas?

Thank you