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Problems using 'Rendered entity - Block' in header/footer

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Created on 8 September 2015, almost 9 years ago
Updated 2 February 2024, 5 months ago

Problem/Motivation

Views allows rendering a block in the View header or footer using the 'Global: Rendered entity - Block'

Problem 1: Bad UX

What value to enter in the field 'Block ID'. After a bit of trial and error, I managed to get this working by adding a block to a region, editing the block and getting the ID from the URL.

Problem 2: Dependency on block in region

I've "created" a block ID by placing a blok in a region. But the block ID only exists as long a the the block is configured to be visible in a region. When the block is deleted from the region, the View breaks.

Proposed resolution

  • Make a block selectable via the interface, similar to the selection following 'Place block' on /admin/structure/block.
  • Make rendering a block in the view independent of the block being placed in a region.

Remaining tasks

  • Make a patch
  • Write test

User interface changes

Improved UX by making a block selectable.

API changes

Data model changes

📌 Task
Status

Needs work

Version

11.0 🔥

Component
Views  →

Last updated 2 minutes ago

Created by

🇳🇱Netherlands Sutharsan

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  • Comment about 1 year ago →
    🇬🇧United Kingdom natts London

    I'm surprised that neither of these issues, especially the second which is a definite bug, have been addressed in all this time.

    Just to confirm that using the global block area provided by the views_block_area → contributed module worked for me too.

  • Comment 5 months ago →
    🇺🇸United States Kurt.j

    For what it's worth, I found this option: "Rendered entity - Block" did not render the block in the view header or footer, but this option: "Rendered entity - Content block" did render the block. Key word being "Content" I guess. I would agree that the difference between these are not evident.

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