Hi Roy,
Please note that I did not read your post thoroughly or truly consider your question.
I'm just writing to let you know that Views "Preview" functionality is a bit funky, it doesn't work reliably in all situations. I don't rely on Views Preview for anything. Do you really need it?
Shai
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Roy R roy.redirect@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Drupal gurus, Newbie drupal user trying to set up a website for a non-profit org.
I am using Content Profile to capture a Member Account Number field in a CCK text field. I have a Content Type for Contributions which basically lists each contribution received, it has CCK fields for amount, check#, date, and Member Account Number (shared field with Content Profile)
I want to add a menu option called "My Contributions" that will display a table listing the contributions for the current user for a given year (exposed filter on year) i.e. I need to get the Member Number field, and use that to filter the Contributions nodes.
Reading various posts online I understood the best way to do this was to use Views to retrieve the Member Account Number from Content Profile and use that to create a default argument for another Contributions table View. So I have a view called "user_profile_select" that basically retrieves the user profile for the current user. (1 record only), and a second view that takes two parameters, a date, and a Member Number. The following code is added to the default argument section of the Contributions table view.
$view = views_get_view('user_profile_select'); $view->execute(); if ( count($view->result) ) { $ret =
$view->result[0]->node_users_node_data_field_membernumber_field_membernumber_value; return $ret; } else { return false; }
This kind of works, I can see that the correct Member number is being retrieved from the first view, and the second view's SQLs WHERE clause shows the correct argument. But the View does not display any records in Preview mode. If I pass in the same parameters manually, via the Preview text box, it works.
What could be going wrong?? Thanks in advance for your help.
Also please let me know if there are any easier alternatives to doing this? I tried playing with Panels and Contexts. My thought was I should be able to put the first view (user_profile_select) in a Panel, and add the second view to the same panel and have the second view pull its arguments from the first view's context. But this apparently does not work, I cannot see any CCK fields in the context. I thought this kind of simple header/detail displays might be supported out of the box.
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