I have no other way of explaining this other than the long way. Stay with me...

I created a view to override taxonomy term pages with a view of child-terms. Call this "View A".

The child terms have a taxonomy field where they tag themselves with their parent term.

The views override works as expected so far...

I have the packaged views taxonomy term override for the child terms that seems to kick in when the other doesn't find matches. Call this "View B".

If I go save View A, everything works as expected. If I save ANYTHING after View A, it stops working as expected and returns no results.

Let me know what you need to better help and I'll be quick to respond.

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merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented
Category: bug » support
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

You need to provide more details about view A and B. My best guess is you're trying to have two views override the path taxonomy/term/% -- if that's the case, that's simply not possible with Views.

drewschmaltz’s picture

drewschmaltz commented

merlinofchaos - yes, 2 views overriding the same path. When one doesn't find matches, I want it to default to the other.

I ended up simply making the empty results default to a different view (both of them defaulting to each other). If neither return results, recurssion occurs. Other than that, it works like I want it to work.

What I'm really interested in is a good way to setup a category page of sub categories. Then the sub category page with products.

In Drupal 6 I would accomplish this by making a node type "category" - add fields to it - and set node relationships between them.

In Drupal 7, since the categories have fields, the logical setup is taxonomy terms and child terms.

If anyone else has found a way to make this work, please message me.

Otherwise, what I have works fairly well. I will post the results soon. I don't want to create a link to this beta page.

drewschmaltz’s picture

drewschmaltz commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (works as designed)

I guess this works as designed. The interesting thing was the behavior when say path : /a was overriden by 2 views - especially the behavior before anything else is saved. (nodes, settings, views, etc...)