Link a Page to another Page using Views and taxonomy

Question

I have a Page created using a View using a Content Type called Sectors, which displays rows of images with a title underneath the image. The Sector content type has the fields - Title, Image, Sector Category (uses a Taxonomy). A Sector can have many Projects.... so.....

When the user clicks on the Sector Image or Title, i want my site to go to another Page which is created using a View and display all the Projects belonging to that Sector using the Sector Category field (which is a field on both Sector and Projects content type, passed to it from the previous Sectors page), to select all the Projects that are held in the Projects Content Typle - which has fields Title, Image, Sector Category.

How can I link the 2 views?

Answer 1

You first need to create your other page, using Views, with a path pattern similar to the following:

projects_by_sector/%tid

This page can then be configured to display only content of type Projects and the fields you need (Title, Image, Sector Category, etc). Most importantly, you need to configure a contextual filter with the following configuration:

• For the "Content: Sector Category" field
• "Provide default value"
• "Raw value from URL"
• "Path component" => 2 (this follows from the example URL above)

Now back in your existing Views page for the Sectors list, you need to do some field rewriting. This can be done in a number of ways, the easiest would be to add the Sectors Taxonomy reference again as a field and do the rewriting on that field. You can do these using the following steps:

• Add the "Content: Sector Category" field
• Save with the default configuration
• Rearrange your fields and move the new field below/after the "Content: Title" field. This is important so that the replacements token [title] will be available for the rewriting.
• Hide the "Content: Title" field by selecting "Exclude from Display" on its configuration
• Configure the new "Content: Sector Category" field
• Select "Plain text" as "Formatter"
• Expand "Rewrite Results"
• Select "Rewrite the output of this field"
• Enter the following in the "Text" textarea to use the title of your sector
  [title]
• Select "Output this field as a link"
• Enter the following as the "Link path"
  projects_by_sector/[field_sector_category-tid]

This is a rough idea, you need to tune your views page accordingly, but the end-result should be what you asked for. Hope this helps!