Display of Different Views Depending on Logged in User

Have you ever desired to have display of different View filter criteria depending on the user’s role? There are two ways of achieving this.

An alternative approach is to write a few lines of PHP and get different search criteria in the same view and same URL.

function mymod_views_pre_view(&$view) {
  switch ($view->name) {
    case 'event_list': {
      if(!user_access('use advanced search on events')) {
        $view_filters = $view->display_handler->get_option('filters');
        unset($view_filters['field_date_value']);
        unset($view_filters['field_address_title']);
        $view->display_handler->override_option('filters', $view_filters);
      }
      break;
    }
  }
}

In the above code, hook_views_pre_view is used to alter a view before it is displayed. Switch case statement is used to select the view that needs this implementation. Next permissions are checked — if the user role does not have permission “use advance search on events”, then unset the filters.

This is an easy way to create different displays of a view based on permission assigned to user role.

NOTE: These filter criteria are exposed to the users (check “Expose this filter to visitors, to allow them to change it” to expose the filter criteria).