View of users having same taxonomy terms?

Question

I'm running a D7 system where every user has a skills field which is a taxonomy field.

How do I create a view to pull users where they have/share same skills (taxonomy id's) with the login user.

So for example If I've added 'photoshop' to my skills and when I login the view should provide me other user who have tagged their profiles with taxonomy term 'Photoshop'.

Note: view of users having same taxonomy term as well as login user have.

Thanks

Answer 1

The right way to solve this is by writing a default argument handler. A patch to do this was started here: https://www.drupal.org/node/721390

A "shortcut" to doing this would be to use the PHP Code default argument handler and plug it in directly. This is not generally recommended; it would be much better to put the code in a custom default argument handler so you should Google around for how to set one of those up as that's a bit beyond the scope of this question. But here are the steps for using the PHP Code approach and you can use the same logic for a default argument handler:

1. Create a view listing users
2. Add a contextual filter to filter on the user skills field
3. In the contextual filter option, for "When the filter is not in the URL" choose "Provide a default value" and select "PHP Code" from the list.
4. Assuming your field is named "field_skills", enter the following:

PHP code:

global $user;
$account = user_load($user->uid);
$terms = array();
if (!empty($account->field_skills['und'])) {
  foreach ($account->field_skills['und'] as $value) {
    $terms[] = $value['tid'];
  }
}
return implode('+', $terms);

5. Down towards the bottom of that form there's a "more" link. Be sure to open that section of the form and select "Allow multiple values".

At this point, you should have the list that you want with one caveat: the currently logged-in user will show up in this list. You probably don't want this. To prevent that from happening add another contextual filter that excludes the current user from the list:

1. Add a contextual filter on the User:Uid value
2. Choose "Provide default value" for "When the filter is not in the URL" and, out of that list, choose "User ID from logged in user".
3. Under the "more" link at the bottom, choose the "Exclude" option.

Answer 2

This is so simple to create views of users having same taxonomy terms.

1. Add a new views of type user.
2. Under Filter Criteria add your term field ie skill field and select a term(photoshop) according to which you want to filter. Save the views and cheers.

Answer 3

This is how it should be done -

• Create a views block of users.
• Add a relationship for your required taxonomy vocab (in your case it's skills)
• Add a contextual filter of User:uid, provide value from URL & add default argument as Userid of logged in user.
• Place block on relevant page & check.

Note - I haven't done it myself or have similar exp. But logically, this should work.