How to display text with a custom view for the Taxonomy term page

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General Assistance

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Alina Nevins

Issue/Request:

I want to use a custom view for the taxonomy term page. This is because the instructor would like to reorder the nodes associated with the term arbitrarily, so I will use DraggableViews for this.

The problem is that this will cause the Body field of the taxonomy term to be hidden. How can I have the Body display as well as the custom view?

Josue Rodriguez on August 26, 2015:

Hello, Alina,

I’ll take a look. Can you grant me access to the site?

Josue

Alina Nevins on August 26, 2015:

Sure, I made you an admin.

Alina Nevins on September 2, 2015:

Hi, any update on this?

As a workaround, I created a block with the body text in it and have it displaying on the page, but this is not ideal as I’ll have to create a block for each taxonomy term page view.

Josue Rodriguez on September 3, 2015:

Hello Alina,

I’ve come up with a workaround that will display the description. The catch however is that it will only show if there are items tagged for that Taxonomy term. There is a global text area under the Header section of the view which uses a relationships to bring in the description. All other attempts to bring the description failed but this seemed to work. Give it a look.

Josue

Alina Nevins on September 17, 2015:

Thanks! This works as a workaround. It seems like this is something that should be easier to do, but I wasn’t able to get it to work any other way either.