[development] howto views filter null timestamps

[andrew morton]

You need a filter that uses COALESCE(fieldname, 0) = 0 to convert
NULLs into zeros. I think the numeric filter has this ability.

andrew

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Lluís <enboig at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have coded a content-type and I want to filter it using views. I
> have to check if a timestamp field is 0 or NULL (I can change de
> coding). Is there any way of doing so?
>
> My field views definition is:
>
>  $data['node_mynodetype']['first_read'] = array(
>    'real field' => 'first_read',
>    'title' => 'First time the node was read',
>    'help' => '.',
>    'field' => array(
>      'handler' => 'views_handler_field_date',
>      'allow empty' => TRUE,
>      'click sortable' => TRUE,
>    ),
>    'sort' => array(
>      'handler' => 'views_handler_sort_date',
>    ),
>    'filter' => array(
>      'handler' => 'views_handler_filter_date',
>    ),
>  );
>
> thanks
>
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