DRUPAL: customize dropdown Views filter

Question

hi,

I'm using Views dropdown filter (with tags) and it works great. However I would like to customize it in this way:

1 - remove button "Apply" and automatically update Views (at the moment I'm updating it with Ajax)

2- allow my customer to change the order of the dropdown items (specifying top items)

3- select multiple items without having to press the SHIFT button on keyboard (do not unselect other items if new items are selected)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/72686/viewsFilter1.png

Let's suppose the items in the image are tags... something like this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/72686/viewsFilter2.png

thanks

Answer 1

1. Use jQuery to .hide() the Apply button, and then set a handler on the filter fields so that whenever one of them is changed (i.e., by the user), the Apply button registers a click.
2. Hmm, can't help with this one. You might be stuck writing a custom module that hooks into the Views API.
3. Sounds like the Sexy Exposed module would solve this problem?

Answer 2

hi,

I'm using the following code to keep the items selected and it works.

$('#edit-tid option').click(function() {

$(this).toggleClass("selected");    
$("option:not(.selected)").removeAttr("selected"); 
$("option.selected").attr("selected", "selected");

    //submit request
 $('#edit-submit-Portfolio').click();

});

When a request is submitted the page is refreshed. The selected items are still selected (class="selected") but the javascript code do not keep them selected.. I don't understand why, since they have the correct class attribute.

So.. it doesn't work after refresh, even if the html code is the same (the same class="selected" attribute is assigned to the same items).

thanks

Answer 3

I've solved point 1 and 2, installing better exposed filter module from drupal website.