One of the few gripes I have with views 3 is that when you want to override a section or grouping for a display (like fields, contextual filters, relationships), you often end up with the following scenario:
- Create new display
- Add new contextual filter
- Select "This Display (override)" option while configuring new filter
- Select Master display (which I leave turned on) or another display that has the default options
- Remove new contextual filter
The problem I have is that steps 4 and 5 seem completely unnecessary, especially when that was easily accomplished in Views 2 by clicking on the group/section name and selecting the override option before adding any options.
The way I see it, the elegant solution here would be to add an override option on the "Add/Rearrange" drop down for each group/section, like I've done here for the "Fields" group in this screenshot:
Once overridden, this option would change to "revert" in case you wanted to go back to the master defaults.
I found this separate issue (#1114860: Override is hard to find and use: Give back the old way of overriding all the fields) that in my view is circling around the problem, but not articulating an elegant and worthwhile solution. so I decided to create a separate one.
Thanks,
Rene
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Comments
Comment #1
tim.plunkettTagging. This would be really great, I think.
Comment #2
dawehnerThere are two ways to implement it
As people should know what they are doing here i think b) would be better for most users, while a) would be better for power users. What do you think?
Comment #3
rhache CreditAttribution: rhache commentedDereine,
IMHO, I think people who look for this action know what they want and will tend to be advanced users, so I think opting for the "power user" option is best (ie Add a toggle link - without any additional action).
Thanks,
Rene