Does the "remember" button actually do anything in Views 2 ?
February 24, 2009 - 8:31pm
answers his own question
for the benefit of others:
While you are still on that same path URL, the setting of the remember button makes no difference. It comes into play when you navigate away from that path, and then come back.
If the remember button is selected, when you return to that URL, then the exposed filter will be set to whatever state you last left it in before you went somewhere else.
If the remember button is not selected, then every time you return to that URL, the filter starts off at its default value (whatever that is).
For the last week (and then some) I've been struggling with getting an exposed filter working, in Views 2.
Initially when setting an exposed view, I was ticking the "remember" box in the exposed filter setup. But I cannot see that this box has any effect at all... When I go to the path which will call up my view, I can see the exposed filter. No problem so far... except that the filter behaves exactly the same way regardless of whether the "remember" box was ticked or not. It always behaves as though the "remember" box was actually ticked.
That is, if I'm looking at the output of my View (ie I'm on the path URL that I set up), and I select a new value in the filter, then click on the "apply" button, the filter runs, I see the new data output, and the exposed filter still displays that (new) value in the exposed field selector. I get this behaviour regardless of whether the "remember" button is ticked back in the View configuration.
Am I missing something fundamental here? What is the "remember" button supposed to do?