add option to "Override properties of current display by default"

I also want this feature so much! Is there anything that can be done right now to "override" by default?

I think you could write some custom module, that changes the behavior of views, though i see both no need and no chance to chance this for views, i think many people would get very confused and too be honest people setup the master display and change things for the sub-displays.

So what's the difference? This happens to maybe a thousand people each day right now, accidently. That's what my request is about.

Well you know people get used to that, changing anything now will confuse SOOOO many people. I know there would be at least 10 issues per week just about this topic, and you know people which want this feature will not help in the issue queue.
There are probably already books about the new ui etc, sorry but that's from my perspective not something that can or should be changed.

Please try out the views interface in drupal6. The concept existed there as well, the UX is definitive better now.

Hehe funny enough the views ui actually got some good UX tests from google.

I am working on this issue and soon will port patch for this.

I have attached the patch that will enable following feature with this module.

Feature:
Set "override" be the default selection for all other displays.

I need some suggestion from views Maintainers here. It would be so useful for me if they help me to sort out this issue. I have tested this patch for all possible scenario manually and then run test cases against this. One test case fail after applying this patch because this new feature is completely opposite to that test case i.e testWizardMixedDefaultOverriddenDisplays().

Let me explain you what exactly I got understood from this test case. This test case ensure that page and feed have identical title and block having a different title. But we are creating this feature request where 'override' be the default option that will conflict with this test case. So in this patch I also make some changes in this test case and still working on that to ensure this patch should work fine for every scenario. Can someone look into these changes manually once to correct me if I am wrong.

I am attaching this patch again including changes in test case.

It works cool with latest -dev version (7.x-3.x-dev) as well as with latest stable version (7.x-3.7).

More positive opinions for this patch: Views Module: having trouble with settings the properties of displays?

This is really nice (and even necessary to avoid mistakes) to integrate in Views core.

Thank you @er.pushpinderrana.

Thankyou Raul for your valuable feedback.

We've recently switched our testing from the old qa.drupal.org to DrupalCI. Because of a bug in the new system, #2623840: Views (D7) patches not being tested, older patches must be re-uploaded. On re-uploading the patch, please set the status to "Needs Review" so that the test bot will add it to its queue.

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Reuploading previously RTBC'd #12

Thanks @joelpittet!

Looks good, but some minor issues:

+++ b/views.module
@@ -2529,3 +2529,38 @@ if (!function_exists('user_views_api')) {
+ * Implements hook_form_alter

Missing parentheses and punctuation.

+++ b/views.module
@@ -2529,3 +2529,38 @@ if (!function_exists('user_views_api')) {
+      // Set option selected to "Override properties of current display by default"

Missing punctuation.

+++ b/views.module
@@ -2529,3 +2529,38 @@ if (!function_exists('user_views_api')) {
+

Let's remove this blank line.

Thanks @colan.

I have incorporated all your suggestions except the last one - regarding removal of blank line.

I think this blank line is needed before starting new function i.e. views_form_alter(). Please take a look to attached patch with interdiff.

@er.pushpinderrana I think you have attached the reverse interdiff. The looks right to me, and issues from #19 seems to be resolved. Setting this back to RTBC.

+++ b/includes/admin.inc
@@ -2592,7 +2592,12 @@ function views_ui_standard_override_values($form, $form_state) {
+    if(isset($form['override']['override_flag']))  {

This doesn't follow the drupal coding standards.