Hello!

Okay - im a beginner at CCK and Views, and they are extremely confusing, and i still dont quite fully understand how these work. I just know a bit about display, page, and, thats it.

Ive been searching endlessly and from my research, it seems views and cck is suitable for what i need. I have all my taxonomy terms and url aliases set up, however, i want to rearrange my taxonomy terms from row by row, to a table-grid format, see attachment.

I also have imagecache and teaser thumbnail installed already and working.

I have no idea where to begin, or what settings to input into views. I think, any direction or any advice would really really help !

Thanks in advance! Always appreciate the community's help.

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dawehner’s picture

dawehner
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It's not that hard.

First step is to enable the taxonomy view. It's provided by default by views. Therefore goto admin/build/views/ and enable the taxonomy/term/% view.

Then taxonomy/term/% doesn't get rendered by the taxonomy module anymore. Views does it.

So if you have this you can change the settings of the view.

First you want to have a grid style. Therefore change the style settings and setup number of columns to two.
Look at the preview. You have already the grid layout but the output is the full node.

To change this change the row style to "fields". Then you can add fields under the section by clicking the "+".
There you find

a) the cck imagefield
b) the node body.

Both together gives you the output you need. With some css love you can make it pretty afterwards.

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illusionest commented

GOT IT!

Thank you very much dereine! Fantastic, finally got it to work.

Actually because im using teaser thumbnail i did not need to use "fields" row style. Just Grid style was good enough.

THANK YOU! thank you thank you!!

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dawehner
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commented
Status: Active » Fixed

So if you want to make me happy get involved into the drupal community and help others, too with drupal.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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pyxio commented

Greetings,

How would you modify this solution to have different layouts for different vocabularies. For example, the deafult style is good for most terms... however, for the product vocabulary a grid layout would be better. I have tried creating a new view within the taxonomy view and have played with filters (grid layout based on node type or vocabulary) as well as tried various combinations of contextual arguments and I can't get it work. Any tips would be appreciated. Cheers, Kevin.

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Acertijo commented

thank you dawehner (comment#1)