SUMMARY

In views using aggregation, if you

  • add exposed filter on text filed,
  • add few exposed values
  • deselect Optional
  • select Remeber

you will get the following error:

An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site administrator.

HOW TO RECREATE

Create content type product:

  • Title & Body
  • Price: float
  • Destination: text field

Create a view to display products

  • Set Use Aggregation to yes
  • Add destination filter, expose it, Filter type to expose: Grouped filter
  • Unselect: Optional
  • Select: Remeber
  • Add 3 values (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne for example) with the same values and select one of them
  • Save the view
  • Go to views page and select anything
  • Reload the page without get parameters and you will see the error

An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site administrator.

Comments

DunnLofts’s picture

DunnLofts CreditAttribution: DunnLofts commented

Hi Vladimir,
Have you been able to get a soultion. I have exactly the same issue.

Adam

mondrake’s picture

mondrake
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CreditAttribution: mondrake commented

Duplicate of #1177882: Exposed filters fire "An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site administrator." error?? Please have a look, patch there in #58

daniel.rolls@flightcentre.com.au’s picture

daniel.rolls@flightcentre.com.au CreditAttribution: daniel.rolls@flightcentre.com.au commented

I have checked out #1177882 myself for a similar issue, and the patches in there don't seem to apply.

I think this problem is related to a bug with exposed multiple filters rendered as checkboxes.
See also:
https://drupal.org/node/1982936

drikc’s picture

drikc CreditAttribution: drikc commented
Issue summary: View changes

The path #64 in #1177882-64: Exposed filters fire "An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site administrator." error did successfully solved the following issue I've encountered:

Context

Exposed filters using options:
- Grouped filters
- Remember

Symptoms

Upon a page load, after having previously and successfully used that culprit exposed filter, the following issues appear:
- The filter condition is lost
- The view is empty
- "An illegal choice has been detected" message is set for the culprit exposed grouped filters input