Custom View of Discussion Board

I have a OOTB discussion board to which I have added some custom properties (Group and Category).
I want to create a custom view of the discussion board that only shows conversations with a specific Group value. This works fine; however, when I click the title of the conversation, nothing is displayed (There are no items to show in this view...).
Do I need two separate views for this? It seems like I need a top-level Subject view and then a secondary Threaded view to show the conversation maybe? I wasn't able to find instructions for doing this anywhere.
Thanks!

Hi Chad,
According to your description, my understanding is that the discussion board Subject field URL link is not working in the custom view.
By design, SharePoint Discussion Board Subject field is linking to Flat.aspx which can display the conversation with replies. But for a custom view , the subject field cannot and will link to
display form for the conversation item. For a solution, the fileRef will take you to the current forum post:
<a href="{@FileRef}">
<xsl:value-of select="@Title"/>
</a>
Reference:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/c6e299db-ac02-4ad4-b21e-4aa0650cd129/sharepoint-discussion-board-subject-url-link?forum=sharepointgenerallegacy
Best Regards,
Eric
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