[support] Panels/Views Promote to Front Page Problem

[Shai Gluskin]

Steve and others...

Thanks for the response.

The version of Panels I'm using (Panels 1 dev from 9/07) doesn't overly any
of its own filtering mechanisms on the View other than:

* # of nodes to display
* View arguments

That is why I wanted to use and argument like /view_name/front based on the
"promote to front" toggle. I guess I can create another field and use it as
the argument. Though that field is already there and I'd rather use it.

Were you indeed suggest I use the View arguments in Panels View:configure or
am I missing something?

Shai

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Steve Edwards <killshot91 at comcast.net>
wrote:

>  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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