[support] error on contextual filters

Linda Romey lromey at gmail.com
Fri May 18 16:56:39 UTC 2012


Are all your other settings OK? For example, if you have a filter that
isn't set correctly (i.e. missing the filter criteria) that could be the
cause of the error message, not the contextual filter.


On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Hummel, Tracey S - (thummel) <
thummel at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> The error I'm getting happens on views that do not have any relationships.
>  I tried creating new views that had nothing set but one field and a
> contextual filter with no options selected.  I still get the error.
> Everything is up to the newest version.  I'm beginning to think it might be
> a contributed module that is causing the problem.
>
> Thank you,
> Tracey
>
> ________________________________________
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [support-bounces at drupal.org] on behalf
> of Joel Willers [joel.willers at sigler.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 9:05 AM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [support] error on contextual filters
>
> It could be, but the 'Relationship' to which I am referring is standard in
> Views, if I remember correctly. It allows you to link to other tables or
> use a bit of a filter. So if you had Artist linked to Album linked to Song,
> you could use the Reference module with Relationships to have all songs
> from The Beatles show on the Beatles page. Further, you can link to file
> tables, user tables, etc. and have the album cover (with file size), User
> that uploaded it (with last login), etc.
>
> The problem is, if you kill the relationship after you add fields (or
> filters, or sort criteria), you can really mess things up in the View,
> since it won't know how to relate all the items that it's trying to use.
>
> Joel
>
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of richard reyes
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 11:01 AM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [support] error on contextual filters
>
> Hi Joel,
>
> I thought relationship was a new module ?
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Joel Willers <joel.willers at sigler.com>
> wrote:
> I've never seen that. Do you have updated versions of Drupal, Reference
> and Views3? You might have had a relationship, too, that was removed.
> That's really messes with Views, too.
>
> Joel
>
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of Hummel, Tracey S - (thummel)
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 10:12 AM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: [support] error on contextual filters
>
> In drupal 7, I'm trying to create a very simple view with a contextual
> filter using a node reference field.  When I try to select 'apply', I get
> the error:  An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site
> administrator.
>
> This happens without any options selected like: When filter value is not
> in the URL.  If I select "remove" it does not remove the contextual filter.
>  I've tried the same on several different views.  They all fail on the
> contextual filter.
>
> Has anyone else seen the same thing?
>
> Tracey
>
>
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