I have a view with a number of exposed filters that I want to add an exposed filter for the author, so that the user can limit a list of nodes by the creator of the node (in addition to a number of other filters).
What I've done so far:
I've added an exposed filter of the author and set the operator to "contains any word" (so the usernames could just be a + separated list)
This is by default a text field, but I would like it to appear as a list of checkboxes (similar to taxonomy)
Using hook_form_alter I've added the following code to change it to a list of checkboxes (harcoded for now but I'll fix shortly)
$form['name']['#type'] = "select";
$form['name']['#size'] = "3";
$form['name']['#multiple'] = TRUE;
$form['name']['#options'] = array(
'admin' => 'admin',
'tyler' => 'tyler',
'test' => 'test'
);
$form['name']['#theme'] = "select_as_checkboxes";
When this form is submitted it changes the url to &name[]=tyler&name[]=admin, what I would like to do is combine these with a foreach so that url would look like &name=tyler+admin, but I'm really not sure how exactly to achieve this in the API.
I tried adding a function to $form['#submit'], and changing the value of the field in there, but that still didn't change the output.
Any advice?
Quick Edit
For the time being I have switched this to use radios instead of checkboxes, which solves the issue that I was having.
To break down the issue I was having a bit further, the names of the checkboxes where getting set to name[]= instead of name= because of the multiple inputs. The name filter in Views does not know how to handle multiple values for the name field.
For now I will see if this flies with the client, but if anybody has an answer for the original question of adding checkboxes for all authors to an exposed filter that would be awesome!
Use Better Exposed Filters module.
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I'm trying to use Vuetify's Autocomplete component to select a list of users from the database, searching by name. I want to allow selecting multiple users, with each user appearing as another chip in the autocomplete's input field.
It works fine for the first user selected, but then if I start to type the name of another user, when the search results are updated in the autocomplete component, if the first selected user was not included in the new search results, that user disappears from selected chips.
Here's an example of what happens:
Is there a way to maintain the selected options even if they are no longer included in the search results from the database?
So I found what I feel is an acceptable solution, though I'd love to know if there's a better one.
Basically instead of just overwriting the user search results with what I get from the database via api, I first append the selected results to the new search results. Something like this:
axios.get('/api/users/' + this.search)
.then(res => {
this.user.parents.forEach((id) => res.data.push(this.getSearchResultById(id)));
this.parentOptions = res.data;
});
getSearchResultById(id) {
return this.parentOptions.find((parent) => parent.id === id);
},
Use the props cache-items in your case. It keep the selected items in autocomplete viewable
In Drupal 7, is there a way to change the standard edit form for a content type based on a certain content?
For example:
I have a content type with a checkbox...once it it checked and the form is saved, I do not want this checkbox to be visible anymore...therefore based on the checkboxes value in the Database I want to hide form fields when showing the form.
I am building a small specific project site, where a company wants to add projects, and their customers are supposed to follow certain steps (upload some content, provide information etc.), and also should be able to check off certain requirements, and once these are checked off, they should not be visible/editable to them.
Also the displayed form fields should depend on an user's role, and then FURTHER be limited depending on the content's database entries.
Is there a module, which could achieve this behaviour? "rules" and "field/permissions" come close to what I need, but are not sufficient. Or did I just miss the option to change a form field's accessibility based on conditions?
What I need is some place to define a logic like "IF (VALUEOF(CHECKBOX_1) == TRUE) THEN DO_NOT_SHOW(CHECKBOX_1)"
hook_form_alter is the way to do this, as explained by Mihaela, but what options do you have inside that function?
If you want just to disable field (it will be visible, but user can't change it) you can do it like this:
$form['field_myfield']['#disabled'] = TRUE;
And if you want it to be hidden, but to keep value it has before editing the way to do that is:
$form['field_myfield']['#access'] = FALSE;
I.e. hiding it (somewhere I saw someone suggesting that):
hide($form['field_myfield']);
really hides the field, but after that, when form is saved this field has empty value, validation fails, etc, so that's not a good way to do this. Hiding makes sense only if you want to print separately that field later, at some other place.
function your_module_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id){
switch($form_id) {
case 'nameOfTheNode_node_form':
//your code here. check the value from from_state.
break;
}
}
In this case, I use module Conditional Fields https://www.drupal.org/project/conditional_fields
For example: If my Dependees field has a value, Dependent field can be visible/invisible, enabled/disabled, required/optional, checked/unchecked
I'm doing a Perl/CGI form that needs to present a variable number (1 - 100 or more) of Yes/No radio button groups to a user. Is there any way around having to create a separate variable to hold each value like so
$radio1 = $q->param('radio1');
$radio2 = $q->param('radio2');
$radio3 = $q->param('radio3');
or can I store them in some kind of array like checkbox group values
#checks = $q->param('checks');
Since the radio button groups will all need to have a different 'name' attribute, I don't think an array will be possible. I think the only option would be to display a fixed number of radio buttons at a time and declare variables to hold each one.
Can anyone with more Perl/CGI experience provide an alternate solution for this? Thanks.
Untested. Something along the lines of
my %radio_groups = map { $_ => $cgi->param($_) } grep /^radio/, $cgi->param;
might help.
See http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/HTML::FormFu and
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial::09_AdvancedCRUD::09_FormFu
and see Data::FormValidator / Data::FormValidator::Tutorial
you create a config file, formfu creates html (forms) from that config, validates the forms, whether they are radio buttons or whatever
or you create formvalidator profile, you create the html yourself, and let formvalidator validate ...
also interesting are CGI::FormBuilder (like formfu) and HTML::FormHandler ( like both but moosey )
I'm creating a very basic classifieds website. In this website i'll have various content-types; such as :
Car (which has the cck fields : year, kilometers, color
House (which has the cck fields : number of floors, garden (yes/no)
So each 'element' is a content-type.
I'm listing all the content-types in a view that I display to the user aand then clicking on a link goes to 'create content type of type (clicked type)'.
It's working pretty well; but i can't get rid of the 'create new car' at the top of the create page (which reflects the 'drupalish' behaviour).
I'd like to have it in a more conveniant way such as a three step form like :
Choose category
Choose your options
Register to post your new classified
I've seen the ctools; which provide 'almost' the multistep behaviour; however i can't imagine having all my dozen content-types being 'hardcoded' in a single module.
I wonder if anyone has achieved this kind of setup or if there's a kind of module that can do the trick. I'd like to keep a content type for each type of classified (the webmaster is now used to the interface).
Any help, starting points would be appreciated.
For the first step we had to solve a simular problem. To do so we created what was basicly an override of the /node/add page (the one that lists all the content types), which you've done. To change the title the simplest is to create a yourtheme_preprocess_page() function that changes the title when the url is /node/add or node/*/edit
However: I would strongly suggest switching to a system that uses 1 content type for all listings. We created a very simular site, and after working with different content types it because clear that having 1 content type with fields that were displayed conditionally was a much more sane solution. Using categories for the different product types, and then using the Conditional Fields module to hide and show the correct fields worked much better.
http://drupal.org/project/conditional_fields
Here is and example snippet for setting the title in a page preprocess function:
Setting the title on the node/add page:
if (arg(0) == 'node' && arg(1) == 'add' && arg(2) == '') {
$vars['title'] = 'Choose an Industry';
$vars['head_title'] = $vars['title'] . " | " . variable_get('site_name', "Industry Trader");
}
I'm new to Access and this is the problem I'm suffering: I have four tables - Task, Person, Role, and TaskPerson (mapping table). I have a form that at the top has a unbound combo box displaying a list of people from Person. In the body of the form I have a query pulling from the Task and TaskPerson tables that is embedded as a datasheet. The fields from TaskPerson perform a lookup on Person and Role to display the actual values. Each task can have multiple people assigned to it and each person can have multiple roles. I am looking to pick a name from the combo box with the datasheet updating to only show the tasks associated with that person (i.e. matching the name from the combo box to the name in the person field (which is a lookup) on the form and only showing those tasks).
I have tried adjusting the Record Source for the query so the person field criteria would pull from the combo box using
'Forms![Task Form]![Combo11]'
but that hasn't worked. I have also tried a version of this answer:
Private Sub Form_SelectionChange()
' If the combo box is cleared, clear the form filter.
If Nz(Form) = "" Then
Me.Form.Filter = ""
Me.FilterOn = False
' If a combo box item is selected, filter for an exact match.
' Use the ListIndex property to check if the value is an item in the list.
ElseIf Me.Combo11.ListIndex <> -1 Then
Me.Form.Filter = "[Combo11] = '" & _
Replace(Me.Combo11.Text, "'", "''") & "'"
Me.FilterOn = True
End If
End Sub
While the code is not balking, it also isn't grabbing the selected name from the combo box, so it doesn't update. A likely factor is when I type Me.Combo11.Text, it doesn't actually display Combo11 as an option. I tried typing it in, in hopes of working, but I know that is a bit foolish.
Any detailed answers would be appreciated. I'm still learning my way around and I get lost a bit easily.
Steve.
The first method is the easier one.
In the query you have
WHERE TaskPerson = Forms![Task Form]![Combo11]
Note that there are no ' around the combo reference. With 'Forms![Task Form]![Combo11]' the whole thing is interpreted as string, so it doesn't work.
Then in Combo11_AfterUpdate you simply have
Me.Requery
Disadvantage of this method: you always have to select a person, or the form will be empty.
The second method:
Your query lists all record, the combobox applies a filter. Or removes it, if the user clears the combobox.
I suggest going back to the answer you used, and only replace
Combo_Reported_LOB_Selection by Combo11
and
[ReportedLOB] by [TaskPerson]
And the code doesn't go into Form_SelectionChange(), but into Combo11_AfterUpdate()