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When showing views as blocks or attachments you can use contextual filters & provide a default argument using such options as

- Content ID From URL
- Fixed Value
- PHP Code
- Current OG Group From Context
- User ID From URL
- User ID From logged in User

For blocks on Civi pages it would be handy to be able to grab Civi Values from the URL - eg. contact id - has anyone ever looked into this. (PHP Code is one method but not all views creators have this permission)

I have a slight twist on this.

I wanted to create an organisation member directory in Drupal that will list all member organisations. The standard approach to doing this in Civi doesn't give me enough flexibility (I want additional information and images and will give each organisation the ability to manage their own listing node). So I'm doing it by creating a content type for Organisations, and a view to list all organisations by region.

I want to include a field in the Organisation content type that will contain the contact ID for the organisation in CiviCRM - this will be manually populated. I want the Organisation listing page to have a contact card at the bottom that will contain certain information about that organisation which will be pulled from Civi using a View and contextual filter that only pulls information for the CiviCRM record that matches the contact ID field in the node..

I'm assuming that I'll need to write some PHP to query the Civi database and thereby set the Default Value in the contextual filter in the view.

Questions:
- Am I on the right track?
- Will this work?
- Is there a better way to achieve a similar outcome?

Assuming the answers are Yes, Yes and No (in that order), any suggestions for the PHP I'd need to write? I'm not a coder but can get access to someone who is IF this approach is going to work. Happy to post the PHP back once I get it working.

Thanks

David