All screens come from our Premium Responsive Drupal theme Best Brand. Best Brand is a complete Drupal distribution including several modules, content types, view pages, view blocks, pre-configured image styles as well as a premium theme tailored together to achieve its functionality. It comes with an installation profile that allows you to have a fully-functional site up and running in few minutes.
Best Brand comes with the build in Product content type. Product content type comes with several fields - one of them is the Product Categories field (field_product_category).
Best Brand presents a Related Products (OTHER PRODUCTS IN CATEGORY) block alongside the product your visitor's looking at. Which, needless to say, is exactly what a product listing theme should do. Creating a block of links for related products is a useful way to keep visitors engaged in the selected Product Category to have them to continue reading.
The following block will work for you even if the maximum number of values users can enter for this field is 1 or unlimited.
How to create this Related Posts block with Views
1. Add/Create a new View block through Home » Administration » Structure » Views2. Add the Content: Fields you need under FIELDS and filter your results to a specific content type under FILTER CRITERIA - Content: Type (= Product)
3. Add the Contextual Filter: Content: Has taxonomy term ID (with depth) and Apply this filter after the following configuration:
- Allow multiple values
- When the filter value is NOT available
Provide default value: Taxonomy term ID from URL
Load default filter from node page, that's good for related taxonomy blocks
Limit terms by vocabulary
Filter to items that share all terms
- When the filter value is available or a default is provided
Specify validation criteria with Validator: Basic validation
4. In order to exclude the current node, add a second Contextual Filter: Content: Nid and Apply this filter after the following configuration:
- When the filter value is NOT available
Provide default value: Content ID from URL
- Under “More”, check “Exclude”
5. Save your changes and place your block inside a Drupal region.
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