By Paragon on

Hi everyone,

I've been trying to figure this out for hours. With Drupal 6.17, I could utilize the Taxonomy module to make vocabularies. I could then add new content and provide myself a nice little menu to pick terms from. I could even pick which kind of menu I got: multiple selection, etc.

In Drupal 7, I've made a bunch of taxonomy terms under Games, and I can't find a way to tag content to them. I managed to tag articles to the terms I put under the pre-existing 'Tags' vocabulary, but even then it was a comma-separated textbox, which is far from ideal.

Basically, I can't even make use of my vocabularies, because there is no option to add tags when I make/edit a blog entry, and the option to tag articles is sub-par. Can anyone help me with this? I can't find a solution anywhere.

Thanks,

Paragon

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Paragon commented

Just want to say that this is resolved. I didn't know anything about fields, so the (obvious) solution wasn't so obvious to me.

If anyone else stumbles across this and is confused, simply go to Content Types, find the content of your choice, and click 'Manage Fields'. Make a new field to link to the relevant vocabulary (choose 'term reference'). That's it!

Paragon

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czarphanguye commented

Thanks, just what I was looking for :)

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ronnienorwood commented

@paragon thanx.

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brianestadt commented

I was having a problem getting blog taxonomy terms to be displayed but the terms attached to articles were being displayed. It took me about half an hour to find the discrepancy in settings between the two content types. If anyone is experiencing the same problem:

structure>content types>blog entry

click "edit"

then make the "manage display" tab active. Be sure that whatever you've named the taxonomy field is not listed as a hidden field.

I was wracking my brain for a good 45 minutes until I stumbled across this.

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jfrederick commented

From a D6 developer: Thank you.

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Patricia_W commented

I can enable tags on a blog entry but when I attempt to link to a term in a tag cloud it does not include the blog entry. Perhaps the problem is in Tag Clouds.
Also, although I can enter the tags on a blog post, they do not display when I view the post even though none of the fields is hidden.

Patricia W

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Patricia_W commented

I had added a field to the Blog Entry for tags but it was not the correct format for tags (Term reference). Once I fixed that the tags appeared.

Patricia W

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elnornor commented

Hiya,

Thanks for those pointers - I was having the same problem.

I managed to get a tag field added to a content type (in D7) by going to:
Structure > Content Types > (Content Type) > Mange Fields > Add Existing Field > 'Term reference'

However, once you've added this field, the 'term reference' option under Add Existing Field disappears and you can't add another field for a second vocabulary. (Using 'add new field' doesn't work; it shows up in the content type's fields but doesn't pick up terms from the vocabulary.)

So, does anyone know how to associate terms from more than one vocabulary with a post? Or do I just have to use only one vocabulary with all the tags in it?

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rickdrup commented

I have 4 different vocabulary fields on one content type in my D7 install and haven't encountered any problems. Have you checked the obvious potential glitches? i.e. do you have terms in the vocab you're referencing and are the other vocabs visible to the user? what widget are you using?

Have you tried adding the Term reference field without choosing from existing fields? if you do this, you can still choose your vocab once you've hit save - this isn't a fix as it should work the other way but it may help to trouble shoot the problem.

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elnornor commented

Hi rickdrup,

On the Manage Fields page, selecting 'add existing field' and 'term reference' gives me a nice checkbox list on the content type with options to select multiple tags.

Selecting 'add new field' gives me a radio button list, which does now pick up the vocab terms but from which I can only select one tag.

They both use the same widget, 'check boxes/radio buttons'.

When you added more than one field for your 4 different vocabularies, did you use 'add new field' for each one or 'add existing field'? I need the functionality of 'add existing field' more than once, but it seems I can only use it once.

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rickdrup commented

Not sure if I completely understand what you're trying to do but if you want to allow users to choose more than one tag from a vocab then you can choose the number you want to allow under the "Number of values" field - this is one of the last options in the config once you've added the field. This is essentially what determines if the select option is a radio button (one choice allowed) or a check box (multiple choices allowed).

If you're trying to allow tag selections from multiple vocabularies then you need to have the vocabs and terms added as separate vocabs under taxonomy before you can add them as separate fields.

There should be no reason why you would need something other than one of the above options? if either of these options aren't what you're looking for you may have to be more explicit about what you're trying to achieve in theory rather than trying to explain what steps you are making in drupal.