[support] Views and Current Page Taxonomy

Robert Cummings robert at interjinn.com
Mon Aug 16 04:11:46 UTC 2010


On 10-08-13 04:12 PM, Robert Cummings wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is probably a simple question, but I'm having trouble getting back
> what I want searching Google.
>
> I have regular page content types with one or more assigned "context"
> taxonomy terms, and I have a Contextual Video content type that can also
> have one or more of these terms assigned. I want to use Views to
> generate a block in the sidebar that can choose one video from any video
> having any of the same "context" taxonomy terms as the currently viewed
> page.
>
> Currently I'm not sure how to relate the current page's taxonomy to the
> contextual videos. I thought "Relationships ->  Taxonomy: Related terms"
> might be it, but it doesn't seem to work. I have a node type filter for
> "Contextual Video" already. I could create a view for each taxonomy
> term, but that doesn't feel like the right way to do it.
>
> Thanks in advance!

FWIW, I ended up using a block and a wonderful query to pull the records 
based on the currently viewed page node.

Cheers,
Rob.
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