Let's say that i have the Vocabulary named: Earth and i have the continents as top level terms and then the countries as second level terms etc.
So my tree would be something like this:
Europe
-Greece
-Italy
-UK
-France . . . etc
Asia
-China
-Russia . . . etc
How do i make a view that shows only the the top level taxonomy terms ?
By creating a taxonomy term type view and adding a simple contextual filter in my view :
Contextual filter: Taxonomy term: Parent term
and choosing in the 'When the filter value is NOT available' the option : Provide default value / Fixed Value and in the Fixed Value input text field i enter 0.
Now the view will try show up only the top level terms Europe,Asia,America etc but not the second level terms.
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