Views page list of all content grouped by taxonomy term

Question

I have created a view in Drupal 7 that displays all nodes that contain a particular taxonomy vocabulary. The view contains a page in an unformatted list format set to show content | teaser. All I am trying to do is to group the list by the specific taxonomy term. Here is an example of what I'm talking about:

TERM A
Title
Teaser

Title
Teaser

TERM B
Title
Teaser

I've scoured the web and have only found solutions for displaying EITHER taxonomy terms OR content, but not both. Am I missing something? Is this not possible with Views?

Thank you so much to whomever can help, I've been agonizing over this for days.

-Dave

Answer 1

1. Create a view: Show Content
2. Add a Relationship:
   • Content: Taxonomy terms on node (don't check vocabularies) [Identifier: term]
3. Add a Contextual filter:
   • Taxonomy vocabulary: Vocabulary ID:
     • Provide value from URL -> Path component: 2
4. Add Fields, e.g.:
   • Taxonomy term: Name which uses the Relationship term
     • Check: Exclude form display and Link this field to its taxonomy term page if you like
   • Content: Rendered Content:
     • Display -> Show complete entity
     • View mode -> Teaser
5. Define Format:
   • e.g. Unformatted list, go to Settings and set for Grouping field Nr. 1 -> (term) Taxonomy term: Name

If you don't like/want to use fields as view display rows you can choose Content or Rendered Entity and check 'Force using fields' on Format options do group nodes by taxonomy term.

Now, you can create a page where the path is vocabulary/% (or something like that), so the contextual argument we have set in step 3 (path component = 2) will be now passed to the view as a Vocabulary ID (vid). You can also define an alias for path vocabulary/$vid (vocabulary/2 => cars).

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This is the exported view:

$view = new view();
$view->name = 'nodes_terms_vocabulary';
$view->description = '';
$view->tag = 'default';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->human_name = 'Nodes and Terms by Vocabulary';
$view->core = 7;
$view->api_version = '3.0';
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */

/* Display: Master */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Master', 'default');
$handler->display->display_options['use_more_always'] = FALSE;
$handler->display->display_options['access']['type'] = 'perm';
$handler->display->display_options['cache']['type'] = 'none';
$handler->display->display_options['query']['type'] = 'views_query';
$handler->display->display_options['exposed_form']['type'] = 'basic';
$handler->display->display_options['pager']['type'] = 'full';
$handler->display->display_options['pager']['options']['items_per_page'] = '50';
$handler->display->display_options['pager']['options']['offset'] = '0';
$handler->display->display_options['pager']['options']['id'] = '0';
$handler->display->display_options['pager']['options']['quantity'] = '9';
$handler->display->display_options['style_plugin'] = 'default';
$handler->display->display_options['style_options']['grouping'] = array(
  0 => array(
    'field' => 'name',
    'rendered' => 1,
    'rendered_strip' => 0,
  ),
);
$handler->display->display_options['style_options']['default_row_class'] = FALSE;
$handler->display->display_options['style_options']['row_class_special'] = FALSE;
$handler->display->display_options['style_options']['uses_fields'] = TRUE;
$handler->display->display_options['row_plugin'] = 'node';
/* Relationship: Content: Taxonomy terms on node */
$handler->display->display_options['relationships']['term_node_tid']['id'] = 'term_node_tid';
$handler->display->display_options['relationships']['term_node_tid']['table'] = 'node';
$handler->display->display_options['relationships']['term_node_tid']['field'] = 'term_node_tid';
$handler->display->display_options['relationships']['term_node_tid']['vocabularies'] = array(
  'section_ytic' => 0,
  'section_apti' => 0,
  'language' => 0,
  'newsletter' => 0,
  'tags' => 0,
  'subjects' => 0,
  'translation_mode_type' => 0,
  'internal' => 0,
  'resources' => 0,
);
/* Field: Excluded: Taxonomy term: Name */
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['name']['id'] = 'name';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['name']['table'] = 'taxonomy_term_data';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['name']['field'] = 'name';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['name']['relationship'] = 'term_node_tid';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['name']['ui_name'] = 'Excluded: Taxonomy term: Name';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['name']['label'] = '';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['name']['exclude'] = TRUE;
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['name']['element_label_colon'] = FALSE;
/* Field: Content: Title */
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['id'] = 'title';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['table'] = 'node';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['field'] = 'title';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['label'] = '';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['alter']['word_boundary'] = FALSE;
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['alter']['ellipsis'] = FALSE;
/* Sort criterion: Content: Title */
$handler->display->display_options['sorts']['title']['id'] = 'title';
$handler->display->display_options['sorts']['title']['table'] = 'node';
$handler->display->display_options['sorts']['title']['field'] = 'title';
/* Contextual filter: Taxonomy vocabulary: Vocabulary ID */
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['vid']['id'] = 'vid';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['vid']['table'] = 'taxonomy_vocabulary';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['vid']['field'] = 'vid';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['vid']['relationship'] = 'term_node_tid';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['vid']['default_action'] = 'default';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['vid']['default_argument_type'] = 'raw';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['vid']['default_argument_options']['index'] = '1';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['vid']['summary']['number_of_records'] = '0';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['vid']['summary']['format'] = 'default_summary';
$handler->display->display_options['arguments']['vid']['summary_options']['items_per_page'] = '25';
/* Filter criterion: Content: Published */
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['id'] = 'status';
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['table'] = 'node';
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['field'] = 'status';
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['value'] = 1;
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['group'] = 1;
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['expose']['operator'] = FALSE;

/* Display: Page */
$handler = $view->new_display('page', 'Page', 'nodes_terms_vocabulary_page');
$handler->display->display_options['path'] = 'vocabulary/%';

Answer 2

Here's how you would go about doing this:

1. Include the tag you want to group by in your fields (see map)
2. Click on your format settings. (see map)
3. Set grouping field to the tag.
4. Set exclude from display to true in your tag field.

That should get you to where you want to be.

Here's a map of where 1 and 2 would be located.