[support] Views filter alphabetical range

[toon severijns]

Thanks again for the great tips!!!
I'll have a look into your suggestions.

Best,


Toon

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Ted <ted-drupalists at webfirst.com> wrote:

>  You can create a views-exposed-form--[view_id].tpl.php file for that
> view. Replace the text box with the HTML of your choice.
>
> Another possibility is to use taxonomy reference or list-type field, but
> you would have to write a hook_form_alter and associated functions to set
> the value of that field in a custom module. This would give you the radio
> buttons in the views filter with BEF.
>
> Actually, scratch all that. Here's the best option: update to the very
> latest Views, and then you can specify "Grouped filters". This lets you
> predefine regexes for the original text field exposed filter:
>
> Label: A-F, Operator: Regex, Value: ^[A-Fa-f]
> Label: G-L, etc....
>
> If you drop your computed field, this will make the query run a little
> slower (though you may not notice if it is not a lot of data). If instead
> you run this on the computed field, you can use the equals operator which
> will run faster (especially if you add an index to the table for your
> computed field).
>
> Ted
>
>
> On 8/22/2012 12:03 PM, toon severijns wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot Ted!
>
> I've followed your advise and i've got the computed field to work. I can't
> seem to bring out the computed field as radio buttons with better exposed
> filters though as it's a text field. Maybe facets could be a solution.
>
> Best,
>
>
> Toon
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Ted <ted-drupalists at webfirst.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> It might be easiest to use computed_field to store the appropriate range
>> value on the node. Then override the views-exposed-form.tpl.php if you need
>> the buttons to really be buttons. You could always get fancy with JS and
>> CSS using radio buttons and better_exposed_filters auto-submit. Facets
>> would work, but you would still need to use computed_field, I think Facet
>> API only supports ranges for numeric and date fields.
>>
>> Ted
>>
>>
>> On 8/21/2012 12:29 PM, toon severijns wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Could anybody help me with some advise on how to create a views filter
>> (D7) containing buttons with alphabetical ranges (like "A-F", "G-L", "M-R",
>> "S-Z", "All") filtering on the first letter of the nodes' title field?
>> I've seen a post on how to create an alphabetical index (
>> http://drupal.org/node/641342) but i kind of need the letters grouped in
>> ranges. Or is this something that's best done with search API/facets?
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>> Toon
>>
>>
>
>
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