Ok, I think I have this sorted out but wouldn't mind some advice if I went about it the wrong way. To recap, the goal was to have a list of previous programs sorted by year and have that results page stay within the layout set in Panels.
Within Views
- Create a Content Pane to filter out only the programs content type with the Argument set to display a 'Summary, sorted descending' based on the year of the program. This will be used to display just the years of the previous programs in a list and will be added to main Programs page.
- Create a Page to filter out only the programs content type with the same Arguments. Set the path of this page to 'programs/previous'. This will be used to view the actual results of the list created above.
Within Panels
- Create a new Page with the Path set to 'programs/previous/%view'. In the Arguments section, set it to Managed Page. In the Content section add the page created within Views and make sure the Send Arguments option is checked.
- Within Node Template (which controls the main layout of the entire site), add the Content Pane to the Programs page.
Therefore, when a visitor goes to the main Programs page ('/programs'), they will see a list of the previous programs in the right hand corner and clicking on each one will bring them to the appropriate page (such as '/programs/previous/2001') while keeping everything in Panels.
I'm a little confused as to how all works (for instance, how does the Content Pane inherit the '/programs/previous' path from the Page?) but am glad it works as planned. Hope this helps others and please don't hesitate to let me know if I could have achieved this in a simpler way!
Bob