Drupal 7 get a list of taxonomy terms in views

Question

In Views (Drupal 7), how do I generate a list of terms from my taxonomy list called tag?

Solution

It's not clear from your question if you just want Views to display all the terms in the Tags vocabulary or if you are asking about generating a list of tags used to categorize content (for the latter, it would be a "Show content of type x" (i.e. "Node view").

If all you want is to show all the tags in your Tags vocabulary, you create a View to "Show Taxonomy terms of type Tag". You'll find options to create page or block displays. There are several "Display format" options:

• Grid
• HTML List
• Jump Menu
• Table
• Unformatted list

If you click on "Continue and edit", you'll find that, by default, the terms in the list are links. Clicking them takes you to a display of "teasers" for any content tagged with the term. You can adjust the sort order, add filtering, etc, and continue to tweak your displays.

Here is a screenshot of the initial step for creating a View of Taxonomy terms: