Remove trailing nid when using argument in page display path

Interesting, if I use panels to enable the "more" link, it will show node/%/stuff, but then I can't change the text of the more link as far as I can tell.

I thought content panes might solve my problem, but the trouble remains.

I am slowly creeping into "support leech" territory! :)

I'm beginning to realize that this is possibly a bug.

As it stands, if you use the "more link" option on a block display, it will add the nid to the end of the page path node/%/something/nid.

If you use the "more link" from the panels config of the block, you get the correct node/%/something.

If you use a content pane, it always uses the "more link" field in the views administration to find the configured name of the "more link". No matter how you try to config between panels and the content pane administration view, there is no way to not make it show as node/%/something/nid.

So what's the common denominator?

Whenever the panel uses its own "more link" on a block, it produces the link without a trailing nid.

Whenever a panel allows the block to create the "more link", it makes the link with a trailing nid.

Whenever you use a content pane, whether through the panel config or the views admin, it will always make a link with a trailing nid, even if you use a path override.

So, it seems whenever the panel relies on views to provide any "more link" content, it will always have a trailing nid, even if it is a content pane that is being created.

Possible solutions:

1. If on the page path override of a view, allow the user to choose to remove the trailing nid if an argument from the url or nid is present.

2. Always allow content panes to not have a trailing nid.

Or whatever someone with actual technical understanding could think up.

It seems the issue is that I have Node:nid argument set, which I was using to remove the currently viewed page from the view on that page.

I'm going to keep digging here.

It seems that if I remove that Node:nid argument, then all the links are correct.

But if I add it, no matter how I set the argument, whether through the content pane argument input or through the node-id argument form, it still bumps the original nid to the end.

So either I am not using the correct option to remove the current node from the display, or possibly a node:nid and page path issue?

May be in the case of an nid, it shouldn't be considered the type of argument which will bump an nid to the end of the page path link?

No problem. It is a simple view that displays a node:title based on the value of a referencefield, in this case to view child nodes.

$view = new view;
$view->name = 'node_reference_navigation';
$view->description = 'Displays Siblings and Children based on node reference';
$view->tag = 'node reference';
$view->view_php = '';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->api_version = 2;
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Defaults', 'default');
$handler->override_option('fields', array(
  'title' => array(
    'label' => '',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'link_class' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'target' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'html' => 0,
      'strip_tags' => 0,
    ),
    'empty' => '',
    'hide_empty' => 0,
    'empty_zero' => 0,
    'link_to_node' => 1,
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'title',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'title',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('sorts', array(
  'title' => array(
    'order' => 'ASC',
    'id' => 'title',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'title',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('arguments', array(
  'field_referencefield_nid' => array(
    'default_action' => 'not found',
    'style_plugin' => 'default_summary',
    'style_options' => array(),
    'wildcard' => 'all',
    'wildcard_substitution' => 'All',
    'title' => '',
    'breadcrumb' => '',
    'default_argument_type' => 'fixed',
    'default_argument' => '',
    'validate_type' => 'none',
    'validate_fail' => 'not found',
    'break_phrase' => 0,
    'not' => 0,
    'id' => 'field_referencefield_nid',
    'table' => 'node_data_field_referencefield',
    'field' => 'field_referencefield_nid',
    'validate_user_argument_type' => 'uid',
    'validate_user_roles' => array(
      '2' => 0,
      '4' => 0,
      '3' => 0,
      '5' => 0,
    ),
    'relationship' => 'none',
    'default_options_div_prefix' => '',
    'default_argument_fixed' => '',
    'default_argument_user' => 0,
    'default_argument_php' => '',
    'validate_argument_node_type' => array(
      'blog' => 0,
      'panel' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_node_access' => 0,
    'validate_argument_nid_type' => 'nid',
    'validate_argument_vocabulary' => array(
      '10' => 0,
      '19' => 0,
      '22' => 0,
      '21' => 0,
      '20' => 0,
      '18' => 0,
      '15' => 0,
      '14' => 0,
      '17' => 0,
      '24' => 0,
      '23' => 0,
      '16' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_type' => 'tid',
    'validate_argument_transform' => 0,
    'validate_user_restrict_roles' => 0,
    'validate_argument_php' => '',
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Override',
    ),
  ),
  'nid' => array(
    'id' => 'nid',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'nid',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('access', array(
  'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('cache', array(
  'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('use_more', 0);
$handler->override_option('use_more_always', 0);
$handler->override_option('use_more_text', '');
$handler->override_option('style_plugin', 'list');
$handler = $view->new_display('page', 'Child Page', 'page_1');
$handler->override_option('path', 'node/%/child');
$handler->override_option('menu', array(
  'type' => 'none',
  'title' => '',
  'description' => '',
  'weight' => 0,
  'name' => 'navigation',
));
$handler->override_option('tab_options', array(
  'type' => 'none',
  'title' => '',
  'description' => '',
  'weight' => 0,
  'name' => 'navigation',
));
$handler = $view->new_display('panel_pane', 'General CP by Title', 'panel_pane_1');
$handler->override_option('arguments', array(
  'field_referencefield_nid' => array(
    'default_action' => 'not found',
    'style_plugin' => 'default_summary',
    'style_options' => array(),
    'wildcard' => 'all',
    'wildcard_substitution' => 'All',
    'title' => '',
    'breadcrumb' => '',
    'default_argument_type' => 'fixed',
    'default_argument' => '',
    'validate_type' => 'none',
    'validate_fail' => 'not found',
    'break_phrase' => 0,
    'not' => 0,
    'id' => 'field_referencefield_nid',
    'table' => 'node_data_field_referencefield',
    'field' => 'field_referencefield_nid',
    'validate_user_argument_type' => 'uid',
    'validate_user_roles' => array(
      '2' => 0,
      '4' => 0,
      '3' => 0,
      '5' => 0,
    ),
    'relationship' => 'none',
    'default_options_div_prefix' => '',
    'default_argument_fixed' => '',
    'default_argument_user' => 0,
    'default_argument_php' => '',
    'validate_argument_node_type' => array(
      'blog' => 0,
      'panel' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_node_access' => 0,
    'validate_argument_nid_type' => 'nid',
    'validate_argument_vocabulary' => array(
      '10' => 0,
      '19' => 0,
      '22' => 0,
      '21' => 0,
      '20' => 0,
      '18' => 0,
      '15' => 0,
      '14' => 0,
      '17' => 0,
      '24' => 0,
      '23' => 0,
      '16' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_type' => 'tid',
    'validate_argument_transform' => 0,
    'validate_user_restrict_roles' => 0,
    'validate_argument_php' => '',
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Override',
    ),
  ),
  'nid' => array(
    'default_action' => 'default',
    'style_plugin' => 'default_summary',
    'style_options' => array(),
    'wildcard' => 'all',
    'wildcard_substitution' => 'All',
    'title' => '',
    'breadcrumb' => '',
    'default_argument_type' => 'node',
    'default_argument' => '',
    'validate_type' => 'none',
    'validate_fail' => 'not found',
    'break_phrase' => 0,
    'not' => 1,
    'id' => 'nid',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'nid',
    'validate_user_argument_type' => 'uid',
    'validate_user_roles' => array(
      '2' => 0,
      '6' => 0,
    ),
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Use default',
    ),
    'relationship' => 'none',
    'default_options_div_prefix' => '',
    'default_argument_fixed' => '',
    'default_argument_user' => 0,
    'default_argument_php' => '',
    'validate_argument_node_type' => array(
      'blog' => 0,
      'panel' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_node_access' => 0,
    'validate_argument_nid_type' => 'nid',
    'validate_argument_vocabulary' => array(
      '10' => 0,
      '19' => 0,
      '22' => 0,
      '21' => 0,
      '20' => 0,
      '18' => 0,
      '15' => 0,
      '14' => 0,
      '17' => 0,
      '24' => 0,
      '23' => 0,
      '16' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_type' => 'tid',
    'validate_argument_transform' => 0,
    'validate_user_restrict_roles' => 0,
    'validate_argument_php' => '',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('use_more', 1);
$handler->override_option('use_more_always', 1);
$handler->override_option('use_more_text', 'Hello Dolly');
$handler->override_option('pane_title', '');
$handler->override_option('pane_description', '');
$handler->override_option('pane_category', array(
  'name' => 'View panes',
  'weight' => 0,
));
$handler->override_option('allow', array(
  'use_pager' => 'use_pager',
  'items_per_page' => 'items_per_page',
  'offset' => 'offset',
  'link_to_view' => 'link_to_view',
  'more_link' => 'more_link',
  'path_override' => 'path_override',
  'title_override' => 'title_override',
  'exposed_form' => 'exposed_form',
  'fields_override' => 'fields_override',
));
$handler->override_option('argument_input', array(
  'field_referencefield_nid' => array(
    'type' => 'context',
    'context' => 'node.nid',
    'context_optional' => 0,
    'panel' => '0',
    'fixed' => '',
    'label' => 'Content: Go to Parent Page (field_referencefield)',
  ),
  'nid' => array(
    'type' => 'context',
    'context' => 'node.nid',
    'context_optional' => 0,
    'panel' => '0',
    'fixed' => '',
    'label' => 'Node: Nid',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('link_to_view', '0');
$handler->override_option('inherit_panels_path', 0);

I should mention that if I am displaying child content, the Node:nid removal argument isn't necessary...

but when using this view to display sibling content, and I want to remove the current node from the list, then I run into this problem.

I used panels relationship context "node from reference" to hand my block the nid in a nodereference from the currently displayed node.

It seems a content pane doesn't have the direct access to that nodereference nid context like a block does, at least in terms of the selection list.

Possibly the page path needs to recognize when it is being passed an nid that it already has?

It is a shame since the link obviously works fine without that final /nid.

Maybe the URL alter people could do something about this from their end? I'll check out if it's a possibility.

Thanks for looking into this!

Actually, since I am a panels user, maybe allowing the panels config "more link" be editable would be a better solution, since the nid:argument of a view doesn't seem to effect it.

I've written an issue for it here:

http://drupal.org/node/1000146