drupal 8 display block in view footer/header

Question

in drupal 8 core views, in any view you can add header or footer field with "Rendered entity - Custom block". When you do so, it asks for the block id, which appearently is machine name of the block.
A search form block has an id equal to bartik_search and that will make the search box to display. But i have my own custom block created and it has Machine name: modallink and i want it to display instead.
Problem is, when i enter modallink into the "block id" box, it doesn't work. Nothing gets rendered.

What is ID of my custom modallink block?
Am I using the "Rendered entity - Custom block" field incorrectly?

Stephan Steege · Answer 1 · 2017-05-12T08:16:37.297

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It's horrible, but here is what seems to work:

Go to structure -> block layout
place your block in random area of your theme
go to the page settings and hide the block on all pages but some invalid url (for example enter 'none'
go to your view, place the block in header / footer
click the checkbox for 'bypass access checks' in the setting-popup.

edited May 12 '17 at 08:16

answered May 11 '17 at 15:58

Stephan Steege

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Are you answering a question with a question? – lit May 11 '17 at 17:54
no, i was making a (wrong) suggestion, while asking a question about the first answer to this question. – Stephan Steege May 12 '17 at 08:02
Good idea but if you restrict pages where the block will show or disable it in the block layout page it will not show in the view header/footer! – Achraf JEDAY Aug 04 '17 at 12:42

drupal 8 display block in view footer/header

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