I am wondering how I can attach a switch/ link from one view display to another view display within the same view. I can only think of messing around in the template files and hardcoding this navigation.
What is the best solution/ is there a better solution for that?
Update: both displays shall have a own url this for caching and possibility to link to a specific display.
myview/(default: display-table)
myview/display-table
myview/display-list
A possible solution to this is probably utilizing display suite.
You could trigger a link using display suite & display suite extras to open different view mode. The drawback to this is that the user would have to load a different page.
Another solution would be to load the two views as blocks and use quicktabs to display the two views in that tab format you require. The drawback to this solution is that you have two views loaded.
At the top of your views, just add a header anchor to your other views page. This solution is best if you just have one view where this output is being displayed. Otherwise, it would be difficult to maintain duplicate views.
There is the View modes module which does exactly what you need. However there is only a development version available.
If you prefer to avoid installing modules for small tweaks like this, you might want to create a simple switch in the views header.
You can do that either by adding a text area to the header of the view (notice this will require the PHP text filter to work properly), alternatively you can implement hook_views_pre_view to attach a header dynamically (-> better option).
For the link to retain page and filter values you will have to use the l() function along with drupal_get_query_parameters().
Take a look at the blog post I wrote for more details.
