Child & Grand Child terms of Parent Term from URL

Question

I am looking for a way to display both the Child and Grand Children of a taxonomy term (found on the URL) on the same page.

Example Taxonomy called Food. Top root term called GRAPE has children and grandchildren like this.

-Grape

--Red

---Small

---Medium

---Large

-- White

How can we create a view (block in our case) that will always show the children and grandchildren of the parent term from URL?

I am guessing one or two contextual filter where the filter takes the taxonomy term ID Raw from the URL.

Example: doamin.com/fruit/grape/,

therefore, parent will be second in path. The parent term in this case is Grape.

So in the block we will show children and grandchildren of Grape:

--Red

---Small

---Medium

---Large

-- White

Ideally grouped by RED, WHITE.

Apply the contextual filter to a second filter? Not sure, I am just guessing.

Answer 1

You can create a Block that displays Child and Grandchild terms (in terms of hierarchy within a Taxonomy Vocabulary) on a taxonomy term pages with the use of an additional module Views Contextual Filters OR to tell the Views to show children OR grandchildren.

Contextual filters always work with the AND operator, so this module is necessary to loosen that circumstance.

1. Create View of type Taxonomy term
2. Filter it to show only the Food Vocabulary

3. To show Children of a term on that term page we can use the Parent term Contextual filter with these options:
   When the filter value is NOT available
   Provide default value
   Taxonomy term ID from URL
   Load default filter from term page
   When the filter value IS available or a default is provided
   Specify validation criteria
   Taxonomy term ID
   Food

   Now if you enter a term ID into Preview you will see the Child terms of that term. This takes care of the Parent-Child.

4. To filter Grandchildren we have to introduce that level of connections into View. Add the Parent Relationship
5. Add another Parent Relationship and make it use the first one, this is how we get Grandparent info

6. Add a new Contextual filter Term ID and make it use the second Parent Relationship and other options the same as above.

   Now if you enter all/[TID] you will see the grandchildren terms of the [TID].

7. To make the Contextual work with OR go to Query settings and enable Contextual filters OR option.

   To test enter the term ID twice into Preview [TID]/[TID].

8. Add the Field Name from the Taxonomy term Category and make it use the first Parent Relationship (that is the Parent, not the Grandparent), you can Exclude it from display later
9. Under Format Settings set the Grouping field Nr.1 set the Parent field (you might want to use the HTML List as the Format)

The results will show the grandparent first and its children, then grandchildren under their parents.

If the grandparent showing their children is not necessary for you, which it probably isn't, because it will be implied from circumstances by being on the grandparent page, you can edit the Filter from step 2 and make it use the second Parent Relationship, this will only show Grandchildren grouped by Parents.

Place the Block in a region and limit the Pages to /taxonomy/term/*.

Alternatively you'd have to use Views Field View to insert one view into another, which can be performance heavy. I'm not sure how the above compares, it does use some LEFT JOINs too which aren't so performance friendly.