While putting together a view for #549 it became clear to me that users could use an exposed filter that would allow them to filter by author so that they can view all comments posted by a specific user. The best we offer in order to achieve this currently is by allowing to expose the Comment: Author as a text filter with a "contains" operator. Not very useful.
For Drupal, there is the Views Autocomplete Filters contrib module that allows exposing filters as autocomplete fields:
It would be awesome to have this feature available in core and we could use it in various admin views like the manage content and manage comments that have the author fields.
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Thank you very much for your fast answers and clear explanations ! I understand that the site is not corrupted and that there is no danger in leaving the code and the database in their...
Base table or view not found upgrading to 1.32.0, TRUNCATE {cache_book}
Until the official new release (coming soon), the error will ALSO show up when you clear caches, unless you fix this manually as above.
Base table or view not found upgrading to 1.32.0, TRUNCATE {cache_book}
If you want to try to fix it yourself now, I think you can manually set the schema version for the book module (in the system table) to 7000, and then try running the updates again. Test on a...
Base table or view not found upgrading to 1.32.0, TRUNCATE {cache_book}