[support] help with panels, node overrides and context

[sebastian]

Ok, I found a solution!
:D

First I added some invisible fields BEFORE the title field, so that I 
could reference the NID and TAXONOMY term.

Then instead of checking the box 'link field to node' I instead checked 
the box: "re-write output of the field' and wrote in the text field:

<h2><a href="?q=product/[nid]/[name]">[title]</a></h2>

Made sure my panel was called:

path = product

And then loaded the left and right panel views for the appropriate 
content and voila, node view + context relevant taxonomy loaded listing 
in the nav menu... PHEW!

Hopefully this solution will help someone else in the future.

I'd love to see something like this in the tutorials of Panels 2 because 
there are many pitfalls; I lost several hours just wondering why 
arguments weren't being passed only to find out I was loading the 
View:Default instead of the View:Panel into the Panel->Layout... doh! 
Would be nice if the Panels didn't even ALLOW you to load the Default so 
that you are forced to make the RIGHT operation and make panel views for 
all Views you want in panels... there are so many places to turn 
arguments on/off and select different ways to read them, that its overly 
complex trying to figure out where the combination of settings wasn't 
working... anyways, just my 2-cents
:P
:)

Sebastian.

Pierre Rineau wrote:
> With views 2, you can always put a small snippet of PHP code for
> argument fetching.
> 
> May the panel module allow the same thing?
> 
> A small snippet in a textarea could be better than a custom module
> sometime :)
> 
> Le jeudi 16 avril 2009 à 11:31 -0700, Metzler, David a écrit :
>> Short answer:  I don't think this can be done without a custom module. 
>>
>> Longer answer: 
>> Panels doesn't allow you to override the links presented by the content,
>> so there's no way to pass a parameter as an argument on the url.  You
>> might be able to get away with, so unless views 2 (which I haven't
>> worked with) allows you to overide the link url on a node, you won't be
>> able to pass the argument.  I think you'll need to write a module to
>> save away the last term selected in a session variable so that you don't
>> have to rely on it in the url.  You would then have to write a context
>> parameter hook in the module to make this avialable via panels.  If
>> anyone else has a clearer idea of how to do this, I'd love to hear it. 
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
>> Behalf Of sebastian
>> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:36 AM
>> To: support at drupal.org
>> Subject: [support] help with panels, node overrides and context
>>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> Gotten further in my project, but now I feel like I have painted myself
>> into a corner, and I hope someone can point me in the right direction.
>>
>> I've looked through all the panels documentation and tutorials, but I am
>> stuck.
>>
>> I have one panel which has two columns:
>>
>> col1: list of node titles based on taxonomy term
>> col2: list of node details based on taxonomy term
>>
>> When someone clicks on a node title or on a link in the node details, I
>> want them to see another panel for the node, but in my case, this needs
>> to be a node override.
>>
>> I have made the node override just fine with /node/% and it shows a
>> panel just fine.
>>
>> Where I am stuck, is how to pass to the node override a second argument,
>> so that I can still show a filtered list of node titles based on the
>> taxonomy term of the node that was clicked.
>>
>> so, what my panel needs to show when node/% is clicked is:
>>
>> col1: list of ALL node titles based on taxonomy term of SELECTED node ID
>> col2: the node view of just the current node ID
>>
>> I "think" I have to do something with the context setting, but the
>> example I read on: http://drupal.org/node/213733 doesn't seem to be
>> relevant to this task.
>>
>> I'm using Drupal 6 with panels 2 and the latest Views version.
>>
>> Any guidance for which settings I need to change where would be really
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you so much for your help!!
>>
>> Sebastian.
>>
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