OK so I'm sitting here trying to halve my views as I move them into panels_views and thought of this. I have a lot of blocks which I'm setting up with multiple arguments, which will only ever get used as fixed arguments from the panels content add form (taxonomy term, node type, book parent nid etc.). So I'm basically using them as filters to re-use views as many times as possible.

What would make them even more re-usable is being able to add filters to those forms via panels_views in the same way that arguments can be. Then being able to tweak panels_views between node status flags, or select two content types, exclude two taxonomy terms - these things which are hard or impossible via arguments would be very easy. It'd also simplify the ui compared to some arguments (i.e. select list instead of textfield for node type).

I wouldn't want to do exposed filters - because I don't want visitors to see these, just expose to admins.

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merlinofchaos’s picture

Could be interesting. I think doing this correctly might actually be kind of a big project, but it would make for some extremely interesting dynamic views.

moshe weitzman’s picture

I am needing this as well right now. I probably can't take time to build it, but I hope someone else will. For my use case the filters will be defined provided from a context so the admin need not see them on the content item config.

sdboyer’s picture

Thanks for digging this issue up Moshe, I've got enough trouble even getting back to issues from the beginning of March when I started co-maintaining. I'm unlikely to ever make it back further than February, so unless people tag em, I'm gonna miss em.

I probably won't be able to get to this is the super-immediate future, but I will keep my eye on it as something to poke my nose into; perhaps the next night when insomnia strikes.

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sdboyer’s picture

Status: Active » Postponed

I'm marking this postponed, at partially as an excuse to punt it back towards the top of the Panels/my queue, but also because I'm 99% sure I won't get to this for beta4.

sun.core’s picture

Version: 5.x-2.x-dev » 6.x-3.x-dev
EvanDonovan’s picture

japerry’s picture

Issue summary: View changes
Status: Postponed » Closed (won't fix)

Not happening in D6 Panels. There are probably better tools for this.