Views Exposed Filters "Setting default value?"

By Boogle on 13 Aug 2010 at 09:37 UTC

Hello everyone,

I’ve created a view and the exposed filters is giving me some trouble.

The view is a selection of thumbnails of breeds of dogs and I have a filter set to “select by breed”. The problem is that the first dog in the selection is Akita and because I haven’t got any Akita’s on the site it’s not displaying anything when I first go to that page. It’s only when I set the filter to “any” that it displays everything.

So, is there any way to have the default value of the exposed filter set to “Any” so that it displays everything when the page is first accessed?

Many thanks

Comments

Fixed.

Boogle commented 14 August 2010 at 12:21

Never mind people.

Still new to Drupal so I imagine some of the questions I ask are quite basic.

Anyway, all I did was this. After selecting expose in the filters settings I didn’t select anything from the fields allowed values list. By not selecting anything it just defaulted to “any” when viewing the view from the front end.

It was the video on Views by Lullabot that stumped me because they said to select everything in the list. Selecting everything will default to the first selection in the list when first viewed at the front end.

Thanks

You're right

marcelomg commented 4 April 2011 at 13:55

I got stuck with the same problem you have. I also watched the lullabot video and selected all the options.
Thanks to you i got it working now by deselecting the allowed values.

thanks a lot.