By ergophobe on

Running 4.7 and latest version of Views.

Bascially, I am using (or trying to use) views to theme my taxonomy pages. The problem that I'm running into is really simple, but I just can't quite work it out. Here's the setup. Let's say I have

flowers (/taxonomy/term/1 aliased as /flowers)
red flowers (/taxonomy/term/2 aliased as /flowers/red)
yellow flowers (/taxonomy/term/3 aliased as /flowers/yellow)
blue flowers (/taxonomy/term/4 aliased as /flowers/blue)

I want to set it up so that when someone goes to /flowers they get four tabs
All | Red | Yellow | Blue

When I use views, I do not seem to be able to get views to work when I use the url aliases, so I am using the taxonomy terms. Thus

taxonomy/term/2 is the declared URL for the flowers_red view
flowers/red is the URL for the actual page as accessed via the URL alias

So I'm trying to figure out how to get tabs on my views using the /flowers/* URLs

By the way, I know I could use a new URL like /view/flowers/all and /view/flowers/red but that has two problems
1. This is an existing site
2. It breaks navigation by taxonomy terms that are included in the post.

Thanks!

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ergophobe commented

Incidentally, it works exactly as I wish if I just change the URL in the views declarations to

testword/1
testword/2
testword/3

So I know that it's almost there, I just can't figure out how to work with an existing URL alias.

I suppose I could just undo the aliases that point to taxonomy terms and then use mod_rewrite to rewrite all of my taxonomy term URLs as in
RewriteRule ^taxonomy/term/1(.*) flowers/all [L]
but that seems like a hassle (new rule for every taxonomy term that has a view) and sort of a bad idea.

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benthere commented

You could also try Taxonomy Redirect if you have taxonomy/term/# paths that you need to redirect to views.

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benthere commented

Could you create a view, rendered as a page and a tab, that filters on the taxonomy term instead of using URL aliases?

View 1
Filter: Red
Menu: As tab
Page: Checked
Path: flowers/red

View 2
Filter: Yellow
Menu: As tab
Page: Checked
Path: flowers/yellow

etc.

View 4
Filter: Flowers
Menu: As tab + default tab
Page: Checked
Path: flowers/all [+ flowers because it is default]

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ergophobe commented

I've been offline for a few days...

I am filtering on taxonomy and I get what I want with respect to a given URL pointing to the view. Where it breaks down is that when a taxonomy term is autolinked such as the "Post installation · Drupal 4.7.x" tags in this thread. They link to taxonomy/term/22 and taxonomy/term/47 respectively and what I can't get is for the custom URL (whether an alias or a view name) to be set up such that it aliases the taxonomy (so instead of "taxonomy/term/22" it would be "post-install") and points from there to the view.

I think your suggestion of texonomy redirect is what I need. I'll try it and report back.

Thanks

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ergophobe commented

According to the module page:

Due to the way the taxonomy module handles these redirects, they are available
only on a by-vocabulary basis; you cannot redirect them for individual terms.

That makes it sound like something inherent to the taxonomy system makes what I want to do impossible from within drupal. I may be able to do it with mod_rewrite, but it doesn't seem like this should be that hard....

The root problem is really the tabs. If I give those up, then I can just name the views to override the taxonomy and then alias the taxonomy terms, but the views module will not tab on /taxonomy/term/TID (rightly so).

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ergophobe commented

I think I'll just have to creat manual tabs in the Views header and just manage it manually. I can't seem to get it to work any other way.

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rimma commented

Anybody fix this issue?

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