Building a working drill-down taxonomy view

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Thanks, but no need to respond. I've remodeled the views and taxonomy relationship entirely, changing the nature of my question.

I'm building a multi-dimensional drill down for a Drupal-7/Views 3.x site that is exclusively organized using taxonomies. I'm using 2 vocabularies:

Media Source,

a two-level hierarchy:
print
--newspapers
--magazines
online (etc)
broadcast (etc)

Product Item
a single level listing, i.e.,
iPad,
MacBook Pro
Mini

and a "date published" date field for aggregating and sorting product item nodes by month/year

The first view I present is a front-page with a top-positioned taxonomy menu which lists all (3) product items. Clicking on "iPad" leads to a product list view for all "iPad" tagged nodes, regardless of "media source" This works as I expect, passing the contextual filter via the URL.

It renders at the following URL: http://www.example.com/iPad and I have defined a view that renders the data as the designer intended.

Once you're on this page, In the left sidebar will now expose a 3-element drill-down menu by the first tier only, but uses depth to select all child-tagged products of the media source taxonomy, and a month-year summary listing of all matching "iPads" for that month, i.e.,

print

  • December, 2012
  • November, 2012
  • etc

online

  • December, 2012
  • November, 2012

broadcast (etc)

The views definition for the above "print" block takes the term from the URL (iPad) and generates a month-year summary view for all print items. I'm using a static taxonomy-with-depth filter for 'print' and so I have 2 other blocks, one for online and one for broadcast, each returning a similar formatted list but with results unique to each filter combination. Finally, I've specified a base path per each, i.e., press-releases/archive/print in the date summary view, which builds the links out accordingly, i.e.,

http://www.example.com/press-release/archive/print/14/2012-12

Clicking on the left sidebar "print > December, 2012" link takes one to the views-defined page listing as I expect: It shows all iPads nodes with tagged as "newspapers" or "magazines" great BUT, now, the sidebar no longer "finds" an argument and no longer shows what should be the same listing as before I drilled in.

When the arguments are first and second off the root URL, the sidebars work. When they're at the end, they break.

Any ideas greatly appreciated!

triDUG

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