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There are a number of existing issues on ways to improve the D8 taxonomy UI/UX, many of which are related, overlapping, or contradictory. Here's a list:
- #1340500: Merge "list terms" page into "edit vocabulary" page
- #719424: Usability: on taxonomy vocabulary page, document new way of applying to content types
- #113344: Taxonomy term manager view
- #889378: Create taxonomy fields from the taxonomy administration page
- #1368140: Improve user experience of the taxonomy/term/X/edit page
- #1016942: Allow taxonomy/term pages to list multiple entity types
- Box of 'relation' terms on add from is too short to be usable - needs issue?
Term properties and fields
- #569434: Remove taxonomy term description field; provide description field for forum taxonomy
- #1074640: Display term descriptions on vocabulary page
Vocabulary properties
...Okay, wow, that was more than I thought.
I think we should probably get some general direction on this: decide which of the above should be won't fix, which can have a shared solution, etc.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #10 | sample-terms.xls | 155.5 KB | jenlampton |
Comments
Comment #1
xjmI'll try grouping/sorting this list a little after I've had some coffee...
Comment #2
xjmTagging.
Comment #2.0
xjm(xjm)
Comment #3
xjmUm. Right. Dunno how/why I did that.
Comment #3.0
xjmUpdated issue summary.
Comment #4
xjmComment #4.0
xjmUpdated issue summary.
Comment #5
yoroy commentedThanks for collecting these.
Comment #5.0
yoroy commentedUpdated issue summary.
Comment #5.1
joachim commentedadded http://drupal.org/node/889378
Comment #5.2
yoroy commentedRemoved 1160292 which I marked duplicate of 263301
Comment #5.3
xjmUpdated issue summary.
Comment #6
xjmRelated: #211494: Usability: Unify select option formatting. While it's not exclusively about taxonomy nor a part of the admin UI, it is a persistent taxonomy usability issue.
Comment #7
Bojhan commentedIs this still major, we really need a meta category.
Comment #8
xjmAgreed, it's not major.
Comment #9
giorgio79 commentedNot sure if this is the right place to mention this, but when I look at node/add/mycontenttype and taxonomy/term/add the only difference is the "relation field" on the taxonomy/term/add. Why not finish up the decoupling and converting taxonomy term into a relation field, that has an optional title (just like Link field)? This whole taxonomy seems like a duplication of effort when it could be made a full blown field. Or just push for replacing it with http://drupal.org/project/entityreference with the Tree http://drupal.org/project/tree or http://drupal.org/project/relation
PS Seems like it's already happening #1847596: Remove Taxonomy term reference field in favor of Entity reference
Comment #10
jenlamptonUnfortunately, taxonomy administration has a lot more problems than are mentioned here. I'm going to add a few more items to the meta issue that we really need to resolve.
I've been forced to add taxonomy/terms for my clients on many occasions since the admin experience is so bad they either can't figure it out or get really frustrated with the experience, especially around the ordering. :(
I'm attaching a list of terms here, to be entered for QA purposes. I suspect most of the developers who have been working on the UI for taxonomy have never actually tried to use it in a real-world scenario. Well here's your chance :) Most of the time when taxonomy is needed, users have a list like the attached - already sorted the way they want it - hierarchy included. Le's make it so that this list can be entered in Drupal 8 painlessly!
Comment #10.0
jenlamptonUpdated issue summary.
Comment #10.1
jenlamptonadd 3 more issues :)
Comment #11
xjmYes! This drives me nuts. It's also way too far down on the page. Usually that's the first thing I want to enter after the term name.
Comment #12
xjmRelated:
#1847590: Fix UX of entity reference field type selection
#1847596-119: Remove Taxonomy term reference field in favor of Entity reference
Comment #13
tim.plunkett#843162: Creating vocabularies with machine-names "List" or "Add" breaks links in taxonomy overview admin area. codified the limitation of the current path structure. I'm going to double check again that there is no existing issue, but moving this to admin/structure/taxonomy/manage like everyone else would be good to do.
Comment #13.0
tim.plunkettunconfuse
Comment #13.1
xjmRemoving myself from the author field so I can unfollow. --xjm
Comment #22
jukka792 commentedIf Twitter would work similarly, when adding a hashtag for example #hashtag it would instead give #hashtag(4).
So my suggestion is, when adding a taxonomy terms using the autocompolete tags style form, it would not show that "(4)" machine name?
This (4) could be hidden using permissions or something else. It is absolutely useless information and missleading and confusing when a content creator adds tags to her content, and there is this machine name number after the tag. It is a very small but critical user interface issue. Or if it is possible to hide with theme templates, please let me know how to do it.
Comment #28
quietone commentedJust removing closed issues from the issue summary.