[support] Displaying taxonomy as menus

[richard reyes]

Thanks as always Joel. I will try these.

Richard

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Joel Willers <joel.willers at sigler.com>wrote:

> The screen shots were a bit confusing, but if I read this correctly, you
> want what you see in the first pic, right? Views 3?
>
> If it were me, I'd have two displays, like what you have. A Page and an
> Attachment built using Taxonomy (not a requirement, but if you use Content,
> this can get a bit convoluted with Relationships). The Attachment would be
> the 'Menu' and the page would be the display of all of the nodes with that
> taxonomy term.
>
> The list of nodes/Page
> Path would be /taxonomy/% (So, for instance in the picture, you have
> 'red'. The path would be example.com/taxonomy/red)
> Contextual Filters would be Term ID. I don't know where you're going with
> the depth part of it, but I don't think it requires it, from the
> description/picture.
> In Relationships, I would add Taxonomy Term: Content with term.
> If that works, great! I don't think you can use relationships, though,
> with Teasers, so you'll have to build these with Fields (using the
> relationship built above).
>
> The menu/Attachment
> I would use Fields (Under Show: Content (change this to fields)).
> The field would be Taxonomy term. I'd turn off the auto-link-to-term-page,
> turn on the custom link, link to /taxonomy/[term] (or whatever Views lists
> on replacement patterns).
> Format would be Unformatted list. Then you can style the View to be menu
> style using CSS. If that doesn't work, you could create a View of the
> Taxonomy Vocabulary, then show all Terms, in the Field Settings, you can
> make them Inline with a separator. That would limit it to only one
> Vocabulary, though.
>
> Hope that helps. I may have missed a step or two, but you should get the
> idea from what I have there.
>
> Joel
>
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of richard reyes
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:16 AM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: [support] Displaying taxonomy as menus
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have been trying to work on this as a project, please see attached
> [taxonomy menu.png]. Its part of the drupal 7 views cookbook but the
> instructions on the book are outdated.
> I am having trouble displaying the taxonomy terms as menu's like the ones
> on the screenshot.
>
> The other attachments are what I have accomplish so far, as you can see I
> was able to display the articles and the taxonomy terms as part of the
> attachments but got stuck on making the terms unique and styled as a menu
> or something like it.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Richard
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