Support for the Context Module [#1936676]

Comment #1

Melbourne

CreditAttribution: RdeBoer commented 19 March 2013 at 23:53

Hi Christian,
Thanks for the lovely feedback.
Sounds like a useful extension you have in mind.
So that I get my brain around this... What use-case in particular where you thinking of when using a Global Filter to drive a Conext?
Rik

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Comment #2

nally CreditAttribution: nally commented 21 March 2013 at 23:48

@RdeBoer,

(nice to meet you).

I use GlobalFilter to effect Views, but I thought it would be nice to use the same setting to effect block layout. But context is a powerful tool for modifying all sorts of things (theme etc.)

But block layout and selection is what I had in mind.

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Comment #3

RdeBoer

Melbourne

CreditAttribution: RdeBoer commented 21 April 2013 at 05:48

I'm teased by this concept, but haven't been able to set aside any time for this yet...

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Comment #4

nally CreditAttribution: nally commented 12 June 2013 at 17:22

Perhaps this module would help?

https://drupal.org/project/context_var

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Comment #5

RdeBoer

Melbourne

CreditAttribution: RdeBoer commented 2 March 2014 at 04:54

Issue summary:

View changes

Anyone game enough to supply a patch?

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Comment #6

designguru CreditAttribution: designguru commented 12 August 2014 at 13:36

I would love to see global filters be able to set a context - has anyone done any work on this?? :)

q./

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Comment #7

RdeBoer

Melbourne

CreditAttribution: RdeBoer commented 22 August 2014 at 02:35

This idea is great and could work. However not via https://drupal.org/project/context_var (#4), as it would result in multiple users all affecting the same site-wide variable.

One person sets it to X and before their context can be set, another person may set the context condition to Y, so the first persons context is not activated.

However the https://drupal.org/project/context_session module may provide an avenue to implement this properly, as suggested by designguru in private communication.