Views Panes Not Displayed Using Input on Pane Config and Optional Panel Argument [#2579409]

I believe this is similar to #1863166: Bad arguments when first optional context argument is unavailable and #1917658: Empty context value results in missing argument in views argument except that the setup is a bit different.

Steps to Reproduce

Create a View, use a Content pane display
Add a Contextual filter, change "WHEN THE FILTER VALUE IS NOT AVAILABLE" to "Display empty text" or "Display all values"
If you chose "Display empty text", add a "No results behavior"
Set "Argument input" to "Input on pane config"
Create a Panel Page
Add an optional argument in the path (ie: example/path/!optional)
Add your View pane to the Panel page, set the views argument using your panel argument (ie: %optional)

Expected result

When visiting the panel page without an argument (ie: example/path), the view will be displayed according to the Contextual filters default behavior.

Actual result

The view is not displayed at all.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#5	2579409-5.patch	916 bytes	shubham.prakash
#2	ctools-example-views-pane-2579409-2.txt	11.75 KB	jojonaloha
#2	ctools-example-panel-page-2579409-2.txt	2.55 KB	jojonaloha
#2	ctools-views_panes_not_displayed_optional_arg-2579409-2.patch	1.32 KB	jojonaloha

Comments

Comment #1

2 October 2015 at 22:17

jojonaloha created an issue. See original summary.

Comment #2

jojonaloha commented 2 October 2015 at 22:28

Status:

Active

» Needs review

Status	File	Size
new	ctools-views_panes_not_displayed_optional_arg-2579409-2.patch	1.32 KB
new	ctools-example-panel-page-2579409-2.txt	2.55 KB
new	ctools-example-views-pane-2579409-2.txt	11.75 KB

Attached is a patch that resolves this issue for me. I'm also attaching an example of my panel page and views pane. The views pane is a Search API View.

Comment #3

geek-merlin

German

Freiburg, Germany

commented 6 April 2016 at 11:46

Patch looks reasonable.

Comment #4

chris matthews commented 22 January 2019 at 01:55

Status:	Needs review	» Needs work
Issue tags:		+Needs reroll

The 3 year old patch to views_panes.inc does not apply to the latest ctools 7.x-1.x-dev.

Checking patch views_content/plugins/content_types/views_panes.inc...
error: while searching for:
        break;

      case 'user':
        $args[] = (isset($conf['arguments'][$id])  && $conf['arguments'][$id] !== '') ? ctools_context_keyword_substitute($conf['arguments'][$id], array(), $contexts) : NULL;
        break;

     case 'wildcard':

error: patch failed: views_content/plugins/content_types/views_panes.inc:176
error: views_content/plugins/content_types/views_panes.inc: patch does not apply