Once again, great module: Much easier than cloning blocks and altering CSS. I have exposed filters grouped using Views Exposed Groups, but it seems that doing this break this module. although I've allocated all the exposed filters within a group to the additional block, they all appear in the default block. If I disable Views Exposed Groups module, then exposed filters are correctly allocated to the appropriate blocks.

John

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berliner commented
Category: Bug report » Feature request
Status: Active » Postponed

I hadn't heard of Views Exposed Groups yet. Looking at the number of installs for an almost 2 year old module I'm not sure I should invest the time to work on compatibility issues.
I have downloaded and installed the module to see what could be done. The functionality seems great if you need grouped exposed filters, but the way that this is achieved makes it complicated, to say the least, to make my sandbox module work with it. The exposed form is deeply altered, which is why my module fails. But even if you look at it from an UI perspective it is complicated. Having Views Exposed Groups enabled it would be of little use to assign specific exposed filters to an additional block, when they are already part of a group. At least it would be necessary to be able to assign groups to blocks so as to render a whole group (or several groups) inside an additional block. This would mean a big conceptional shift for MEFIBS. I'm not willing (and don't have the time) to do that work right now for a module that I will not use.

If anybody wants to work on that issue I would be glad to provide help though. The best would be to add a submodule to MEFIBS that contains the necessary glue code to support Views Exposed Groups. I did the same for BEF that I use a lot.

I have added a statement to the module page about this incompatibility.
Thanks a lot for your feedback!

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berliner commented
Version: » 7.x-1.x-dev
Status: Postponed » Closed (won't fix)