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I'm creating a simple job board for my company in Drupal 7 w/ Views. I have a view which creates a page that lists all available jobs. Within each job is a truncated description which I have set to trim and display a "Read More" link which goes to the details of the job posting.

To generate the "Read More" link, I am using a contextual filter which pulls the [nid] and in the 'body' section I have the "Read More" link set to node/[nid]. This works exactly the way I need it to.

The issue I'm having is that I have created another page within the view to display the full job posting. And instead of going to www.mydomain.com/node/3166, I want it to go to something like www.mydomain.com/jobs/current/posting/3166. (I'd like to use the nid as some jobs might have the same title).

I go into this view and set the path to 'node/%' and the view shows up formatted and everything when details are clicked, however, setting this bombs out ALL of my other content within the site. So I tried setting the path to something like 'jobs/current/posting/%' and I just can't get it to work.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong and/or have a solution or workaround?? TIA

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  • First of all you don't need Contextual filter in your first case where you are generating link as "node/[nid]" , what you need is replacement pattern. Todo this you can simply add nid to fields list and place above read more link and use the pattern.
  • Change read more link to "jobs/current/posting/[nid]"

Regarding what you are trying to solve

  • You cannot have a view with path "node/%" since it's already taken by node module to render node pages. It will conflict with node module and as you said "bombs out ALL of my other content"
  • In your view set path as 'jobs/current/posting/%'
  • Add a contextual filter nid and set provide default value to content id from URL as shown below.

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  • Hey Anil, Thanks so much for your reply. You're right on the contextual filter on the first part...i just had my description wrong and was not using a contextual filter. On the problem at hand, I have everything set up as you describe, however, the view still is not showing up when I click on the "More" link. Obviously, I have something set up wrong. Is there anything else I need to check or get set up??
    – gev125
    Mar 18, 2014 at 13:07
  • Can you give me "More link" path ?
    – Anil Sagar
    Mar 18, 2014 at 14:02
  • sure it's: jobs/current/posting/[nid]. I have tried both like that and with a / in front of 'jobs'...still no dice.
    – gev125
    Mar 18, 2014 at 14:31
  • Okay, i've been playing around with it and this is getting strange. If I go into a job post and change the URL alias (which is created by auto-aliasin) in include a "/" at the front, it works..however, now I'm stuck with 2 slashes after my domain name like so: mydomain//jobs/current/posting/3157. It also gives me an error about being in an infinite loop. Any way to get rid of the second slash?
    – gev125
    Mar 18, 2014 at 15:37
  • You don't need to change URL alias.. Just point read more link to jobs/current/posting/[nid] .. Let there be node page and view page...
    – Anil Sagar
    Mar 18, 2014 at 16:15

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