Sorting Content In View From Block Using Ajax?

By bdparker on 8 Nov 2016 at 03:14 UTC

Hi! I have another question. (Thanks for dealing with my bombardment.)

Right now, I have nods displaying in a view. It appears as a list of articles. That's great. That's what I want. However, I'd like to add a block at the side of the page which gives me controls to manipulate that view. I'd like to put a search box in there, allow me to add checkboxes to sort by variables I've added to the node, taxonomies, ascending to descending, rating, etc, and I'd like it to update using Ajax, or something that can make the view change it's display without reloading the page.

Is there a module which can do this? Is this standard Drupal functionality? I haven't figured this one out yet. :/ Any advice would be much appreciated!

(Oh, and for the record, I'm really active asking questions on these forums because I'm new, I'm building multiple Drupal sites, and they're all very involved.)

Thanks!
Brendan

Comments

Yes, Ajax is built in to

Anonymous (not verified) commented 8 November 2016 at 16:13

Yes, Ajax is built in to views. Enable it at Advanced > Other in the third column of the view configuration page.

Exposed Filter in Views

fejn commented 9 November 2016 at 03:55

You could Use an Exposed filter in Views to allow the user to Select an element from your Taxonomy to filter by. For testing the concept, a select box is what you get out of the box with Views, but you can use Better Exposed Filters module to give you better looking options (like radio buttons, etc).

Enable AJax

fejn commented 9 November 2016 at 03:58

I forgot -- remember to set the 'Use AJAX' option to YES in the 3rd column of options for Views, or Exposed filters don't work.

solutions ...

sprite commented 9 November 2016 at 05:02

You can put View modification UI controls right into the your page by using "exposed filters" in your View's setup.

Edit the settings in the "filter criteria" section of the View to implement such features.

There are also various modules that implement exactly the sorts of UI features and control that you want.

For example look at:

https://www.drupal.org/project/better_exposed_filters

and other similar modules available for exposing filters and enabling site visitors to control Views from the UI.

(Here is a search that retrieves some of the additional modules)
https://www.drupal.org/project/project_module?f%5B0%5D=&f%5B1%5D=&f%5B2%...

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Ok, thank you everyone for

bdparker commented 23 November 2016 at 18:58

Ok, thank you everyone for your comments! I'm trying it out and it seems to work.

But another part of my question is putting these filters off to the side, like into a sidebar or block or something. Am I able to do that using a module?

Thanks.