Menu links for views with arguments

Thanks for the suggestion. The Global: Custom Text creates the menu item no problem and in the Live Preview it picks up the argument using the path content/something/%1, however the published block doesn't pick up the argument... The urls for the the links showing as content/something/ . I know that Quick Tabs blocks can pick up arguments from the url as %0, %1, %2, %3 and was hoping that a View block could do the same... taking the last part of the url as the argument. Am I missing something or any other suggestions appreciated?

I appreciate that this is possible but I am having a problem achieving it and as this didn't work when I first tried it I presumed I was missing something... I understand that arguments cannot be passed to blocks so code need to go get the argument and pass it. I also created a page view for testing the picking up the argument from the url too with url ../content/foo/bar/test (for which only the view appears). In the Global: box I use content/something/%1 for taxonomy Term. Then Under Arguments I select Taxonomy Term then for: Taxonomy Term Action to take if argument is not present, I check Provide default argument and add to PHP argument code: "return arg(3);" and for testing purposes have Action to take if argument does not validate: Display all values.

When I use the url ../content/foo/bar/test/baz (baz being a taxonomy term) both the view and block appear and show the right link with baz at the end... I have a node that will appear for the url ../content/foo/bar/baz However, when I then remove the 'test' from the url I type in (which would then shows node content) and reduce the argument value from 3 to 2 (as one less url segment) I get the block without the baz - and the ../content/foo/bar/test/baz no longer shows the block but still shows the page view with the links... Adding the 'test' to the baz node url and making "return arg(3);" and the node replaces the page view for url for baz, but the block loses the arguments. For boo which has no node at ..../content/foo/bar/test/boo again the pageview and block view show the correct urls.

I am still missing something... Using pathauto, does my php code need to be more than just return arg(); for the nodes?

This is the code that needed to be used instead of return arg() that gets the alias path and breaks it up so it can be used for arguments to be passed to the view block.

$alias = drupal_get_path_alias($_GET['q']);
$alias_array = explode('/', $alias);
return $alias_array[2];

The menu block works well except for taxonomy terms with spaces such as New York, which is presented as new-york in the url. For Views not using the php code and with the ' Transform spaces to dashes in URL' box is checked returns the right display...
However for Views using the php code:

$alias = drupal_get_path_alias($_GET['q']);
$alias_array = explode('/', $alias);
return $alias_array[2];

The display is not shown even though the Live Preview query shows the term is taken and separated from a url ../site/content/new-york :
(term_data.name = 'new york')
Title New York

Actually it does work. I had a bunch of nodes associated to the taxonomy term which the menu block should have appeared for and I did have views for all the links in the menu block... But the menu block only started to show after I created another content type node for some reason... Caching issue after I turned on the Transform spaces to dashes in URL (which in fact does the opposite and transforms the dashes to spaces...)?

The menu block shows, however the links with the taxonomy term have a space in them (they still work) but it would be better to have the - dash put back in them. How is that possible?

By using Global text I can create a 'fixed' menu link to a view page url, however these links are static and are there even if there is no content. By using node titles as links I can create links to nodes, which only appear if the node type is published, so no content no link... What I would like to do is have links to view pages but only appear if the view has content. I don't see how to do this... The options I was looking for and are not there are: for title in the field value to be "View Title" and to link to the view url and the filter to be "Show view if there is content". Perhaps there is another way to do this but I don't see it?