This screencast presents the concept of default values for contextual filters, and comments on why using default values is a bad idea from an architectural point of view.
It covers the following topics:
- What default contextual filter values are
- How to set default contextual filter values
- Some examples of extra settings for default contextual filter value
- Some words about why it is a bad idea to let the view make assumption about the context where it is embedded
- Some more words about why it is a bad idea to let the view make assumption about the context where it is embedded
- Some words about using default contextual filter values when creating Views blocks
By Johan Falk; Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0