I'm studying the Panels demo at http://panels.demo.logrus.com/ to learn more about panels and views. I can not understand what Merlin is using to call specific categories of stories in his individual featured stories panes. He uses diiferent arguments for specific categories, e.g. argument is 1 for World, 3 for Entertainment. See attachments.

I can't figure what system he is using to select the argument numbers with each categories. Does anyone know?

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Settings-page-for-featured-world-stories.png97.86 KBThomasr976
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merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Sure, those are taxonomy term IDs.

They are the same ID you would see in the url taxonomy/term/tid -- but since it's using pathauto you never see those URLs. YOu can get the IDs by hovering over the edit link for each term in the taxonomy administration.

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented

The easiest way to figure something like this out, btw, is to go and edit the view and see what the argument it's asking for is.

Thomasr976’s picture

Thomasr976 commented

Thanks. This morning I realized that if I edited the view and looked at preview results that the term ids would be listed. Clicking on one of them (3) provided the list of Entertainment stories and then editing that view showed the argument. Nice to know but I prefer the taxonomy list you mentioned, just need a stronger pair of glasses!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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