Drupal, Views: can I use 1 filter, for many CCK fields ?

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Drupal, Views: can I use 1 filter, for many CCK fields ?

Hi,

I'm using Views in Drupal.

I want an exposed filter selecting the ndoes containing a specific word. But I noticed I cannot search more then one CCK field per filter.

Since I want to expose it, I want an unique text-input field for all CCK Fields: is that possible ?

At the moment I can only add a new filter for each CCK field.

Thanks

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You can use the CCK module Computed Field.

Setup the field so that it stores all the text from all the other fields, then you can filter on this one field (and effectively filter on all fields).

See this code snippet for merging multiple fields into one.

vfilby 2010-04-23 17:09:56

so, the only solution is to add another CCK field to my nodes and use php to copy all the content there ?

Patrick 2010-04-23 17:43:16

There could be a better solution, but I am not aware of it. What you are doing seems really close to search, is there any reason you don't want to use the built in search or some of the better search modules out there?

vfilby 2010-04-23 17:47:24

yeah I could maybe use search. I'm using a personalized View in my website and added to it some javascript functionalities, so I guess if i run Search I'm going to use another View.. that's the main reason.

Patrick 2010-04-23 17:49:53

If this is just search, I would suggest trying to use the core search module (or one of the other feature rich search modules) rather than trying to duplicate it with views. Performance will be much better with proper search.

vfilby 2010-04-23 17:54:14

ok cool, so I should work on the code, or find some module to customize search view. thanks

Patrick 2010-04-23 18:49:50

yeah ok, but I need to customize the search results like my view. I guess this is double work..

Patrick 2010-04-23 19:15:30

I've actually found the item "Search" in my Filters options in Views. I dunno how I could ignored it before. It actually exists, and works quite well. Solved.

Patrick 2010-04-24 12:21:59

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