Question

I have a Drupal setup like this:

Content type: Apartments
Vocabulary: Areas, that can be used with Apartments.
Content type: User profile, with a Content Taxonomy Field for Areas so users can select what areas they are interested in.

I would like a view that shows all the user profiles that matches the apartments in their area. A "User profile <-> Areas <-> Apartments" join in other words. I ve been mucking around with the views interface for a while but it s not clear to me how the relations can be setup to achieve this. Can someone give me a hint?

In case this cannot be easily solved with views, what is a good way of doing it otherwise? Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Check out this post: http://thereisamoduleforthat.com/content/using-default-arguments-relate-nodes-their-common-taxonomy-terms. It explains how to do what you want.

Answer 2

In my experience I ve found that views doesn t do taxonomy very well. It s often quite hard to get what you want and then you sometime strugle with duplicates. Often I ve found myself hitting a dead end using views for this.

In this case I would probably do this in a custom module. You don t have to do much. You should be able to make a simple query where you get all apartment nodes that has the same tid as the user profile. Then it s just a matter of what info you want to pull out. You should avoid making node_load() as it ll slow the page down a lot.

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