By jburnard on

Hi Everyone,

I have a menu created from Taxonomy terms. I then created a view of product to associate with that menu item. But, when I make the path of the view page the exact as my menu item it will not show the view. If I just make the path random and check it it works fine but when I have it the same the menu item/term it doesn't work. Any idea how I can get by this? Thanks for reading!

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brycesenz commented

Hey,

If I am interpreting your problem correctly, then I think it's something I've done before and it shouldn't be too hard with the right modules. I was using the following modules:

- Taxonomy Menu
- Panels
- Views

First, I built the taxonomy menu with (obviously) the Taxonomy Menu module. I'm guessing that you've already done this, but if by some chance you built the menu on your own, you might want to look into moving to this module.

Second, I went into the Pages administration area (created by the Panels module), and looked for the template that says "Taxonomy Term Template". This will let you tweak/customize how each taxonomy term result is displayed, and since clicking on a Taxonomy Menu link gives us a list of taxonomy terms, it's exactly what we want.

So now you want to edit this pane, including any selection rules, access restrictions, etc. that you can dream up. There are plenty of Panels tutorials out there in case you get a bit lost. In the 'Content' area, you will want to be sure to include the view that defines how you want each term to actually appear.

Enable the page, and that should be all you need. It worked really well for me, and in the latest version of Panels you can even use Panel Fields to tweak the layout of views results, which is quite nice. Hope that helps!

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jburnard commented

Thanks very much for the reply! I'll check out your solution and see what I can do.

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jsaudiotn commented

Hey all, I'm trying to accomplish basically the same thing, but slightly different. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

I'm building a press site for a record label, so I have a taxonomy setup as Vocabulary:Artist -> Terms:Artist Names

I want to have a page that will pull in all content related to an Artist (Taxonomy Term) and instead of just listing it, I'd like to have multiple views displayed on the page. That way I can have a Bio section, an images section, videos, music player, etc...

The way I understand it is this: The page will have to get the taxonomy term from the URL as an argument and pass that argument to the views, which will then display the content.

I'm having a heck of a time getting this working though... Any ideas? I've followed the steps on this video exactly, but to no avail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_j3xUpdLEs

Using Drupal 7, Views, Panels, and Taxonomy

Thanks,

James