By canadrian on

I'm probably missing something very simple here, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it. I want to be able to display all nodes from all subcategories, as well as the category selected. i.e. the "blog" taxonomy on my site has terms set up like this:

all
-- General
---- announcements [a]
---- background
---- news
---- quiz
---- work
-- Home Brewing
---- Beer
---- Mead
---- Wine
-- Pets
-- Rants and Ponderings
-- The Weird and the Interesting
-- Travel
---- Canadrian's Great British Adventure

I would like to be able to visit the term "all" and have it display the nodes from all of the subcategories, not just nodes whose category is set specifically to "all." Or to visit the term "Home Brewing" and have it display all nodes from "Beer," "Mead," and "Wine." Is this possible? I thought that was the way categories were supposed to work. It's how they work on other blogs, like WordPress, etc. Any ideas? It would also be nice if I could display all nodes in a taxonomy, without having to create terms like "all," but I can't seem to find any way to do this either.

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sillygwailo’s picture

sillygwailo
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You can add '/all' to the end of the taxonomy term URL. If your site is at example.com, and the 'Home Brewing' category is term ID 42, the URL example.com/taxonomy/term/42/all would show all nodes categorized in 'Home Brewing' or any of its subcategories.

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US421 commented

Nice, Thanks.

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canadrian commented

Excellent, thank you! Is there any way to do this with all terms in vocabulary? i.e. example.com/taxonomy/vocabulary/4/all
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phindic commented

This is great, but is there a way to make the '/all' option default for the breadcrumbs that show up when a subcategory query is done?

For instance, if there are nodes for "subcategory" and no nodes for "category", searching for "subcategory" will show its nodes with a breadcrumb trail of "Home>>category". Clicking on the breadcrumb "category" will show a page that says, "There are currently no posts in this category," which seems counterintuitive.

I'd like to see all nodes for the subcategories of "category" when I click the breadcrumb. Any way to do this?

Thanks,

Gib

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criznach commented

I'm working on the same problem this weekend, and have mostly solved it with views. Then I've done a bit of custom work to round it out and get the breadcrumbs right.

Try starting with the 1 deep taxonomy view, then change the depth option to something like 4. It builds a complex query with 4+ joins, but you get 4 levels of subterms under the term you specifiy. Use the smallest depth you can get away with. This is your new term view.

Then, duplicate that view, get rid of the argument, and add a filter parameter for the vocab you want.

Use pathauto for nice tree-like URLs. I pulled some code from the "taxonomy context" module to generate nicer breadcrumbs that fit with the vocab views. Also, an empty branch of the term tree doesn't display the breadcrumb using this method, so I had to manually display a breadcrumb with some php code in the "empty text" field on the view.

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uzbekjon commented

This is not the best practice to achive that but still... Open up taxonomy module (modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module) goto line 1391:

$breadcrumbs[] = array('path' => 'taxonomy/term/'. $current->tid, 'title' => $current->name);

and add . '/all' to the breadcrumb:

$breadcrumbs[] = array('path' => 'taxonomy/term/'. $current->tid . '/all', 'title' => $current->name);

Don't forget to do the same when you upgrade your core :)

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rbgrn commented

This is for Drupal 6

Here is my article with code snippets - http://www.rbgrn.net/diy/content/194-drupal-taxonomy-how-to-add-list-cli...

It works really well for me and wasn't hard to implement. You just need to modify your theme and override one of the taxonomy theme functions.

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osaruben commented

I would like to do something similar, but without using "taxonomy/term/.."

I would like to use "www.site.com/category/category-name/all", but that doesn't work, although "www.site.com/category/category-name/" gives all the results for the category named "category-name", without its sub-categories...

any ideas?

edit: the "category/..."-string is an url-alias for the "taxonomy/term/..."-string (I'm a noob incase you didn't notice...) - but anyway: adding "/all" doesnt work for me - could it be that i have to use a 'translation' of "/all" instead (my site is in dutch)?

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osaruben commented

Found the answer here:

http://www.pixelclever.com/how-show-all-nodes-tagged-with-children-terms...

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WilliamB commented

The /all option doesn't work for me in Drupal 7.
Is there really no other way to do it than to go through View???

Diplay nodes of Subterms in the parent term taxonomy page... That seems like a natural request.

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transmitter commented

Hi there,

any solutions on this?
I'm on D6, Views 2.
I tried all (and the German version of it) which leads to 404.

More over I sat:
Depth:
The depth will match nodes tagged with terms in the hierarchy. For example, if you have the term "fruit" and a child term "apple", with a depth of 1 ...
to 3, which should work as well in my understanding.
But it doesn't.

So - how can I show the nodes of the subcategories within a view?

Transmitter