[DUG-TO] Passing arguments to Views

[David Makalsky]

There seems to be a weird bug in drupal 6 menu system.  I am unable to
add arguments into the menu, I have to hardcode it into the theme.
This is a pretty serious bug, in my opinion.

Regards,

David Makalsky

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Andrew Berry<andrewberry at sentex.net> wrote:
> On 18-Jun-09, at 12:57 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>
>> I have a cck content type, "authors", and another one called "reports".
>
> Yes, Views is the answer :)
>
> Typically I've approached this where the author nodes are content profile
> nodes.
>
> - Create a page view with a path such as users/%1/reports
>
> - Set the view to include a list of report nodes as normal, with an argument
> setting tied to your user reference field. Depending on if you do a UID or
> user name, you may need to write a little bit of PHP code to massage the
> argument into what you want. That's especially likely on Drupal 5. There's a
> lot of documentation online for this as it was a common use case of argument
> PHP code in Drupal 5.
>
> - Either put the view in your menu system as a tab (so it shows up on all
> pages), or just theme in the link into your author node template.
>
> Good luck!
>
> --Andrew
>
>
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David Makalsky