How to use Drupal 6 views and panels arguments together?

Question

I need to acheive the following layout/setup for a section of my website:

Using the following panels layout:

Top column spanning full width containing:
- a view (prob themed using jquery cycle) of images relating to current node

3 columns below containing:

1. Left column: List of 4 single hierarchy taxonomy terms:

   • Term 1
   • Term 2 (selected)
   • Term 3
   • Term 4

2. Middle column: List view of node titles tagged with taxonomy term selected in left column

   • Node1 title (tagged with term 2) (selected)
   • Node2 title (tagged with term 2)
   • etc.

3. Right column: Contents of node selected in middle column

   • Node 1

I'm a newbie. I think in theory I can do this with just views and panels, passing the term id and node id as arguments. But I need someone to point me in the right direction because I don't know how to make the views and panels arguments and contexts work together. Thanks.

Answer 1

You're probably better off ditching panels and just making a block yourself to display the top panel. The Acquia Marina theme has a layout that lets you have this exact setup - a block above your content but below the header, with up to 3 columns underneath that. Just go ahead and copy their layout code from a finished page to get the effect you're looking for without having to use the panels module at all.