When setting the term_display options for a vocab to "custom" (and possibly others - untested - answer to that would be revealed by a fix anyway I suspect), this destroys the term data in the node object for that vocab.

This data in turn is required by views_attach, if you wish to attach a view to a node, and use data from that vocab to pass in taxonomy context.

Example: I have a location taxonomy. I want the location terms to be displayed "inline" in the node display, so I set the term_display settings to "custom". I also have a node type that relates to location, called "locale". On locale type nodes, I want to display a (views_attach) view of various data.

That data is determined by passing in a token ([term-id]) from the node to views_attach, and henceforth into views.

The term data, however, is trashed by term_display (unset - line 184?), and therefore the token never gets built, and all the views_attach argument handling therefore crashes into the ground and I get no views on my nodes.

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NikLP’s picture

NikLP CreditAttribution: NikLP commented

If anyone can prove it, this in fact might actually affect all term/taxonomy tokens...?

NikLP’s picture

NikLP CreditAttribution: NikLP commented

Fix: turns out that because term_display has a lower weight (of zero) than token (10), no taxonomy (or just specific/term?) tokens get created if the term data has been nixed by term_display, as the term data is already gone before token gets a shout.

Setting the weight of the term_display module to 15 fixed this problem, and I don't foresee any particular issues with that - unless there's some other relative positioning problem, perhaps with node module or taxonomy module.

Otherwise, am suggesting that as a fix.

mastoll’s picture

mastoll CreditAttribution: mastoll commented

Interesting. How do you adjust a module's weight?

NikLP’s picture

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Status: Active » Needs review

Update the weight like this (in SQL shell) - or I believe there is a module that will do it, but I can't remember what it's called...

UPDATE system SET weight=15 WHERE filename LIKE '%term_display%';

Someone needs to review this!