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I have a view output that shows user-profiles. Each view is a group on it's own and has a maximum of ten members. How can i show always ten items, if there are currently -let's say- only 7 assigned? So it would show 3 empty slots with maybe a custom text.

I don't find any logic that's out-of-the-box views behaviour for this. Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

EDIT: Adam Balsam pointed out the grid format, which has an autofill feature. Unfortunately it's just an empty table row that is created. It's also not useable for responsive layouts... bummer.

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You can add the empty rows to the view in the View's Style output template. Assuming you are using the unformatted style, the template name would be views-view-unformatted--[view-name].tpl.php.

Using the default views-view-unformatted.tpl.php as a starting point, add the following to the top of your custom template:

<?php $num = count($rows); $add = (10 - $num); for ($i=0;$i<$add;$i++) { $rows[] = '<div>Empty Row</div>'; $classes_array[] = 'views-row views-row-' . ($num + $i); } ?>

If you're worried about the views-row-last classes, etc, the same sort of logic could be applied earlier in the view build process using something like hook_view_pre_render(), but depending on your scenario, the above should suffice.

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  • I'll test this. Thanks! I knew that I couldn't escape custom templates forever... Commented Apr 24, 2013 at 15:38
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You could use the Grid format and select the "Fill up single line" checkbox. Make sure you have entered either 5 in the "Number of columns" textfield and display 10 items in the pager settings.

That would fill each row with empty <td> elements.

Note: If you have less than six results, it will only fill the first row; so this isn't a perfect solution.

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  • Nice catch. Unfortunately the grid format isn't quite useable for my usecase. It just adds empty table rows, but I need at least some text to add here, so some kind of field would be great. Commented Apr 24, 2013 at 15:01

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