Using Panels and Views to override taxonomy listing - which argument to use?

Question

I'm using Panels to override the taxonomy display at taxonomy/term. I just enabled the term_view page that comes with Panels and it works great.

So going to mysite/colours/blue shows the Panels page no problem.

Now I want to add a View to the panel that lists the returned nodes. I create the view, and add a relationship 'Content: taxonomy terms on node' (selecting the required vocabulary 'colours').

The I add an argument (contextual filter) on 'Taxonomy term: name'. This works great in the view preview if I enter the value 'blue' but not if I enter 'colours/blue' (no results). And it doesn't work in the panel because 'colours/blue' are the arguments being passed to it.

How do I get the view argument to work with this URL?

Answer 1

In the Views UI, each Content Pane has "argument settings". In there you have, at least, two options.

1. The easiest to configure, is "From panel argument", and its option in this case, "Second argument". This works fine in your situation.
2. The most flexible, that I always use, require more understanding of the Ctools context.
   1. The argument setting then is "From context" and in this case "Taxonomy Term" -> "Name".
   2. Save the View, go into the Panels UI, add the View Pane, not just a View.
   3. Assuming your Panel Page now has a taxonomy term, which is always the case on the /taxonomy/term page, you will get a dropdown, most of the time with just one option, that lists the available terms that you pass on to the View.

If you for example had a path like /color/red/blue, because you wanted two terms, the second version will allow the re-use of the same View on the same page, with different content.