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

[Luke]

For the archives if nothing else (although maybe it prompts some 
discussion--my questions have been either too basic or too impossible of 
late, and so haven't resulted in much):

I came across a module called Taxonomy Views Integrator, which at least 
looks like it might be a solution to my problem discussed below.

http://drupal.org/project/tvi

Any thoughts anyone would care to share?

Since this is something of a Ubercart problem, I'll probably have to scrap 
UC catalog and just do my own view for taxonomy, but that should at least 
be doable, and more portable than overriding the theme for the 
subcategories in question.

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
>