I have to say that finding the location module has made my last two projects a snap.

All the fields in a location are available in a regular Views filter: Location: City, Location: Country, Location: Distance / Proximity
Location: Latitude, Location: Lid, Location: Longitude, Location: Name, Location: Phone, Location: Postal Code, Location: Province, and Location: Street.

In a contextual filter (aka argument) in Views, only some fields are available: Location: City, Location: Country, Location: Distance / Proximity, ocation: Phone, and Location: Province.

Is there a reason the other fields are not included? Is there a way to have those fields? I might have designed myself into a corner expecting the Location: Name field to be available as a contextual filter based on a quick View built with a fixed filter.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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#4 availableargumentfields-1347432-4.patch1.78 KBgreggmarshall

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greggmarshall
Location Aurora/Denver, Colorado
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Ok it wasn't very hard to add the one field I needed, I edited the locations.views.inc file and copied the argument settings from the city field definition to the name field definition and I could use that field.

I hated to hack a module, but it was expedient. Still curious why all the fields that are defined as filters aren't also defined as arguments.

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hutch commented

Contribute it as a git patch and perhaps it will be ;-)

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greggmarshall
Location Aurora/Denver, Colorado
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I will attempt to figure out how over the weekend.

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greggmarshall
Location Aurora/Denver, Colorado
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new availableargumentfields-1347432-4.patch1.78 KB

I have a feeling the module authors had a different approach to defining the arguments, but this was a quick and dirty approach.

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greggmarshall
Location Aurora/Denver, Colorado
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Just curious if this patch, or a better solution than mine, might be added to the module so I can stop patching every time a new release comes out...

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greggmarshall
Location Aurora/Denver, Colorado
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Just bumping this up and seeing if we can get a long term solution committed to the module. The patch submitted still works, just its a pain to keep applying it.

Thanks for consideration.

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greggmarshall
Location Aurora/Denver, Colorado
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Issue summary: View changes

Patch still works with 3.3, any chance of getting it committed so I can stop patching?

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merauluka commented

Notion seconded. It would be great to have this included in dev at least.

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goldlilys commented

Patch works with 7.x-3.5 . Hopefully it gets added to the next release or dev.

I'm like greg, why are the other fields not included as contextual arguments?

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garbo commented

As the people above, I, would also like to know why other fields aren't available as contextual filter.

Thanks, Gregg, for your patch.

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greggmarshall
Location Aurora/Denver, Colorado
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Patch still works with 7.x-3.7.

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jonhattan
Primary language Spanish
Location Plasencia
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Status: Active » Reviewed & tested by the community

It works as expected.