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Drupal: Re-using faceted search blocks

The faceted search module in Drupal creates a set of blocks for each new faceted search environment (current search, guided search, related, etc).

If you were to create a faceted search environment for e.g. books, you could set it up with a base path browse/books and a start page as browse/books/results. To display the faceted search blocks, you'd then set the Page Specific Visibility settings for the block as 'Show on only the listed pages' and the actual pages as 

browse/books
browse/books/results*

Question: I would like to re-use the 'guided search' block on a different landing page. The landing page should display a list of available search terms (sidebar-left) and show a view over the rest of the page.

So far, simply adding a different path to the list of 'show on only the listed pages' has no effect.

Solution

  • Drupal veterans would likely be able to offer better, cleaner and more correct solutions, but the following works for me:

    I added a new block which runs the following PHP:

    $env = faceted_search_env_load ( $fs_env_id );
if (!$env->ready()) 
{
    $env->prepare();
    $env->execute();
}
faceted_search_ui_add_css();
$env->ui_state['stage'] = 'results';
print faceted_search_ui_guided_block($env);

    $fs_env_id depends on your setup. The links generated by the API will link to the actual faceted search environment paths, as expected.