[support] Displaying taxonomy as menus

[Joel Willers]

The % is any argument you throw in there, and it will be used in the 'Contextual Filters' area. So if you want domain.com/taxonomy/term/subterm/otherargument you'd set the page to taxonomy/%/%/% then set the first Contextual Filter to 'Term' next to the subterm, etc. One example might be a blog, where you have blog/year/month/day/ and set the page to /blog/%/%/% and the contextual filter to Year, then another to Month, then the third to Day. I hope that made sense. 

Joel 

From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of richard reyes
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 11:15 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Displaying taxonomy as menus

Hang on, you explained that the url would be domain.com/taxonomy/red while the arguments would be term ID. Would that work?

- 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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