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