Custom links in Views

Question

For a Taxonomy Vocabulary on my Drupal 7 site, I have added several custom fields for each Taxonomy Term, and want to have two different ways of viewing the Term information: a summary and a detailed view.

I've created the two Views for summary and detailed (myterm-summary/% and myterm-detail/%). But now the question is how to create a link between them. I'd like a link on myterm-summary/% to link to myterm-detail/% as a "Read More..." link. Is there some View element I can add to the View to create a custom link, using the dynamic URL variable in the process?

I know I can create a Rich Text block header or footer for the View, but can I refer to the URL variable in that text block somehow?

Answer 1

I've found a solution that you can use the Replacement Tokens to this effect. In order for the field you want to show up as a possible Replacement Token, it must be in the Fields list. So I did:

• Set Format to "Unformatted List"
• Set Show to "Fields"
• Add the "Term ID" field to Fields list.
• During creation (or edit it afterward), check the "Exclude from display" box.
• Create a new Footer element that's a "Global: Text Area" type.
• Check the "Use replacement tokens" box
• Insert <a href="/myterm-detail/[tid]">More Info...</a> in the box.

Answer 2

You can use the "Global : Text Area" in the Header or Footer of the view to add the link. You can get the URL variable using a PHP snippet and use that to create a link. The following should work :

<?php  
$view = views_get_current_view();
print '<a href=\'/myterm-detail/'. $view->args[0] .'\'>Read More..</a>';
?>

Make sure you are using the PHP code text format.