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I hope you can help me out with this. I have created a simple view with an argument. I use that argument to filter (contextual filter) the content of the view. I already know I can use that argument as a taxonomy term ID and as a taxonomy term name, which means I can get my view loaded as:

www.myhost.com/myview/12

or

www.myhost.com/myview/termname

Both ways are ok and work fine but the problem I have is that I'd like to use an alias for the term, instead of the termname. Term names I already have on the site have some characters which are not really SEO friendly.

Is there a way to use the taxonomy term alias or any other workaround to get this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Might want to check out this answer: drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/3425/… and this answer: drupal.org/node/1156022. Posted as a comment because I'm working on the same thing myself. – RobW May 3 at 1:47

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install the path auto module and configure the alias patterns for the taxonomy terms as you wish

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Thanks for your response, Blackem, but as far as I can see, pathauto doesn't allow me to use the term alias... I forgot to say I am using panels so things get complicated... – José L. May 2 at 18:46
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Finally my work around this was as it follows:

  1. I created a custom taxonomy vocabulary which has an extra field "human friendly tag".
  2. I changed the name of all the taxonomy terms for being seo-friendly (not spanish accents, nor brackets and so forth).
  3. I use term name for the internal stuff in my view (term names are part of the url). You can see how to get this here as @RobW pointed out.
  4. I use the first field (the "human friendly tag") when content is rendered (in the view). I need to use "rewrite results" options when creating the view.

I hope it is clear enough. :-)

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