[support] View or no view based on argument? Or: overriding UC Catalog for certain TIDs?

[Luke]

Bump, sort of.  Really, I'm confirming that the list is still 
running--haven't received anything since my original of this (~23 hours 
ago), and this list is usually more active than that.

Luke

  On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Luke wrote:

> Hello
>
> The UC catalog module provides a display of categories and subcategories,
> and ultimately a list of nodes.
>
> I need to change the way it displays lists of nodes for certain catalog
> categories (taxonomy terms), but otherwise it should use the default.  In
> other words, if the path is:
>
> catalog/1
> catalog/2
> ...
>
> Do whatever it would normally do.  However if it's
>
> catalog/25
> catalog/30
> catalog/31
> catalog/37
> catalog/38
> ...
>
> I want a view to take over.
>
> Sadly, UC does all of this in code, with no actual "catalog" view--it's in
> the UC Catalog module.
>
> Is there some way to get this behavior?  You know, without setting up a
> view page for each tid where I want this?
>
> As an alternative, all of the products in the special-handling-desired
> tids, will be of a specific type.  If there was a way for the view to
> detect the type of nodes which would be displayed, and invoke only if a
> certain type is matched, but otherwise allow non-view behavior, that would
> be perfect.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Luke
>