[support] Problems displaying views tabs under page

[Steve Edwards]

I've created a new content type, and associated with that content type 
is a taxonomy vocabulary with two levels.  I would like to have a page 
that gives general information about the content, and then a tab for 
each top level term in the vocabulary.  On each tab, I would like to 
list the nodes for that top level term, and also display in the list the 
second level term that is assigned to the particular node.

I spent a few hours yesterday trying to get this to work using the Menu 
Tab functionality in Views.  I can get the three tabs to show up, but 
with a couple problems:

1) I can't get them to be displayed under a page that already exists.  
According to the help on the Default Menu Tab page for the Parent Menu 
Item Type, "or to use the menu item that already exists at the specified 
URL. For example, if the URL for the default tab is 'tracker/all', then 
'tracker' would already have to be a valid menu item to use this final 
choice."  So it my case, I have a page node with the url of mypage.  For 
the view tab, then , I would like to go to mysite.com/mypage and see the 
three tabs.  I set the URL of mypage/view1 and set the Parent Menu Item 
Type to "Already exists (don't create)".  I also have two other views 
set up with URLs of mypage/view2 and mypage/view3.  If I go to 
mysite.com/mypage, I get my static page just fine.  However, if I go to 
mysite.com/mypage/view1, I just get my three views, without the main 
parent page.  Is there a way to set my page and the tabs up this way?

2) On each tab, I would like to display the second level term that is 
assigned to each node in the field list (using Table view).  However, it 
seems that in Views, I can only display the top level term, not the 
second level term. 

Is it possible to do what I need to do with just Views, or will I need 
to do some custom coding?

Thanks.

Steve
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