Build taxonomy categories with views, only children

Question

I am trying to build a menu with taxonomy terms and views.

Lets say that I have a tree of taxonomy terms

1. Parent-1
   • child-1.1
     • grandchild-1.1.1
       • greatgrandchild-1.1.1.1
       • greatgrandchild-1.1.1.2
     • grandchild 1.1.2
   • child-1.2
     • grandchild 1.2.1
       • greatgrandchild-1.2.1.1
       • greatgrandchild-1.2.1.2
     • grandchild 1.2.2

I am having problems viewing only the children of the taxonomy menu. I want to exclude the current level, and only see the children, not the grandchildren of an item. So for instance.

When I am viewing child-1.1, I only want to see grandchild-1.1.1 and grandchild-1.1.2, not any of the great grand children. I don't want to see child-1.2 or the parents.

Thank you very much for your help!

Answer 1

Can you set up your Taxonomy view to accept the argument Parent term and pass it the current term? I don't know how complex your view is, but I got it to work in this basic example:

View type: Term
Add arguments: Taxonomy: Parent term
Action to take if argument is not present: Hide view / Page not found (404)
Validator: Taxonomy term
Argument type: Term ID
Add fields: Taxonomy: Term Term

That will display only the current term's children, i.e. those that have the current term as a parent.