[support] Panels/Views Promote to Front Page Problem

[Steve Edwards]

One option would be to create a separate CCK field in your content type 
(radio button, check box, select list, whatever) that your panels can 
use for filtering what should be displayed on the front page, and then 
that field will be ignored when the view is used by itself.  That will 
allow you to still use one view in multiple places.

Steve

Shai Gluskin wrote:
> Is it possible to retain the meaning of "promote to front page" when 
> using a panel for a home page?
>
> Here is the problem...
>
> I use a Panel for the home page and it has several views. Right now I 
> have the views set to filter on "promoted to front page" as a 
> requirement for selecting nodes.
>
> The problem is that those views meaningfully exist on their own URLs. 
> On those URL's I want all the nodes to show up based on the other 
> criteria, but not filter on "promoted to home page." When the web 
> editor unchecks "promote to front page" for a particular node, those 
> nodes now disappears from the View as well.
>
> The simple answer is to clone the view, make one filter on promote to 
> front page and the other not. That would turn my four home page views 
> into 8, ughh.
>
> *My idea:*
> Create an argument in the View. But when I click on argument in the 
> Views UI I /don't see/ what I want to see in the drop down: 
> node:promoted to front page.
>
> I'm running Drupal 5.7 and Views 1.6. I'm using Panels 1 dev version 
> from 9/07 (will now update that to Panels 1.2 now that I noticed I'm 
> behind on that one).
>
> Any help on the argument idea or other ways to do what I want to do 
> would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shai
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