[eca_views]: How to get the actual View result in ECA

Created on 6 September 2023, almost 2 years ago

Updated 15 September 2023, almost 2 years ago

Problem/Motivation

I built a View to count how many content entities there are on my site, by (published) status and entity type as contextual filters.
This returns just the actual integer (also for performance reasons) to be used in an ECA model for allocating/accounting costs/credits to users.
The problem is that when I add the "Views: execute query" activity in eca, the token returns all the base field values for every content instead of the count result (which I instead get from the Views UI preview):

I've already read the related issue #3343891 so I wonder, is this possible at all? What would be the workaround? 🙏🏻

Proposed resolution

Use the "eca_render" submodule, pick the activity "Render: Views", select the View and fill the arguments (ie. contextual filters) and define the token name to be used in later actions of your process as before; no need to add to the render array in this case so you can leave empty the "Machine name" and "Element weight" fields.

Remaining tasks

💬 Support request

Status

Fixed

Version

1.1

Component

Documentation

Created by

🇮🇹Italy kopeboy Milan

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Comments & Activities

Issue created by @kopeboy
Assigned to kopeboy
Status changed to RTBC almost 2 years ago11:45am 6 September 2023
Comment almost 2 years ago →
🇮🇹Italy kopeboy Milan
I found the solution myself and I'm happy if this will help someone else as documentation :)
Comment almost 2 years ago →
🇩🇪Germany jurgenhaas Gottmadingen
@kopeboy this is a great example. Mind you, if I used that example in an ECA TV session to produce an example for the ECA Guide's library?
Status changed to Fixed almost 2 years ago2:09pm 15 September 2023
Comment almost 2 years ago →
🇩🇪Germany jurgenhaas Gottmadingen
This is now recorded in https://tube.tchncs.de/w/jnzoru2XFHgpoToQB5P6AT, thanks a lot @kopeboy for the great idea.
Comment almost 2 years ago →
System Message
Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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