Posted by OldAccount on April 15, 2011 at 12:58pm
Since I'm apparently known as the girl with all the questions... I'm gonna ask a question (isn't that what groups are for??:)
I have about 180 taxonomy terms set up for an e-commerce site (thanks to Taxonomy Manager that wasn't too painful), each term needs to have its own page and menu item with a grid of products that are tagged with that term. Rather than create 180 Views and 180 menu items, I'm hoping/praying there's an easier way to do this. Any suggestions?
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Investigate Views arguments
It sounds like Views arguments is what you want: http://drupal.org/node/54455
You can create a view that takes a taxonomy term as an argument and only displays results matching that term. I don't know about creating a Menu with a capital M, but you could use the same method to create a block of links pointing to each specific view.
Taxonomy Menu
Taxonomy Menu http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_menu will take care of the menu portion of what you are working on. That way if you add more taxonomy terms, not only will the menu item be generated but also the page based on the view containing the argument. For example the path might by taxonomy/term/flowers (or term ID) for one menu item and taxonomy/term/baskets for the other.
Perfect!
This is exactly what I needed, thank you! I still have some details to figure out but overall this is a HUGE time saver. Thanks! I owe you a beer. :)