Background: By default the taxonomy_term view is available to generate views of the terms in given taxonomies. This view may be extended just like any other view to provide a lot more information, however with this customization you may find yourself wanting a different view for different taxonomies. In our case we have a taxonomy of electronic journals and resources that needs to look vastly different from the historical collections where pictures and such are available.
TVI let's you pick your taxonomy term view from the taxonomy page
Our solution: Taxonomy Views Integrator allows you to choose which view to associate with which taxonomy through a very handy and intuitive drop down menu. Since there are already too many redirects and such on our site in my opinion this is the way to go. We cloned our default taxonomy term view and added some new filters… voila! Then just go to /admin/content/taxonomy and in each vocabulary you may choose which view to use… taxonomy and views… integrated.. better than chocolate caramel lobster salad…
For the videophiles here’s your two minute walkthrough…
NB: There are several tools out there to accomplish this task:
Views Term Path Override: overrides the term path – more URL’s getting flung about, however it’s certainly viable
Taxonomy Redirect: Likewise, probably works, but just doesn’t seem quite as elegant or obvious – not certain which of our admins would remember to
probably a few other ways of doing this… thanks to deeporange1 and awebb for this handy mod
