How do I sort by taxonomy term parent, and then by post date?

Question

I have the following taxonomy structure:

Locations

• Group 1
  • Location 1
  • Location 2
• Group 2
  • Location 3
  • Location 4
• Group 3
  • Location 5
  • Location 6

Pieces of content are being posted to the site, and each piece of content has a location and a post date associated with it. When the view is displayed, how can the results be grouped by parent term ID (group 1-3), and then grouped by post date within each group?

I've tried using the "taxonomy term: name" sort criterion, but then adding the "content: post-date" criterion seems to have no effect.

Answer 1

I think I found a way to do this--I added the "content: taxonomy terms on node" and "taxonomy term: parent term" relationships to the view.

The key is the "taxonomy term: name" criterion has a checkbox where I selected "parent", which appears only after you add the relationship. I added the post-date sort criteria after that, and it appears to be working the way I want.

Answer 2

For really simple sorting, such as it's outlined in the question it's easy but took me a while to find it (no relationships needed):

1. Add taxonomy term as a field and exclude it from the display.

   Make sure you have the title field still in the display.

2. Then under Format, click on "settings" to the right of "format:"

3. Under "Grouping field Nr.1" choose the taxonomy term field.

Now all your content should be grouped according to their respective term:

• Term Name 1
  • Item 1 Title
  • Item 2 Title
• Term Name 2
  • Item 3 Title
  • Item 4 Title
• Term Name 3
  • Item 5 Title
  • Item 6 Title