Missing Taxonomy Terms in Views

Seems like this little critter from back in 2008 has found it's way back into the views module!

Symptoms

  • One term is dissapearing from your list
  • It is always the term that should come first alphabetically, adding another term that ranks higher in the alphabet just makes the new term dissapear

Solution
Apply the patch below

*** views_taxonomy.inc.orig 2007-12-06 18:53:07.000000000 +0000
--- views_taxonomy.inc 2007-12-06 18:53:21.000000000 +0000
***************
*** 240,248 ****

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Advanced Caching in Drupal 6

The Drupal community & maintainers are awesome. Questions may be ignored for months and there's no way to actually push your patches into a module if the module owner has decided he doesn't have time to work on it anymore.

Same thing has happened with the Advanced cache module. This module rocks when it comes to caching your data in Drupal 5. I've never seen such a performance increase with any other module that doesn't rely on third party software (think memcache, sphinx, ...).

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Duplicate Nodes in Views

Views & CCK fields may not always produce the desired results. Currently there are 2 known problems. One being with showing random results and one where you filter on a CCK field that can have multiple values.

Random sort bug:
http://drupal.org/node/140061#comment-1043325

Multiple values bug:
http://drupal.org/node/140061#comment-1530618