By vasi1186 on

I have a project with some content types and lots of fields attached to them. For some of them, it is a bit hard for me to decide if I should use a taxonomy reference or a simple select field. Found some posts on the Internet, but almost all of them do this comparison from a Drupal 6 perspective. There is also a forum post on this issue: http://drupal.org/node/566710. In Drupal 7 however, things have changed a lot, and both, taxonomy and fields gained more power. I know that there is no such "magic" recipe that can tell somebody if they should choose to use a taxonomy reference instead of a field, but maybe there is someone that can give some general advices regarding this issue, for Drupal 7.

Thanks a lot!

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

Reasons why I use a vocabulary

I am categorizing the content and want to be able to show all content in a certain category.

I want to make it easy for a client to change the list of values.

I want to do things like associate an image with a value

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userofdrupal commented

Also interested in this same thing. Hopefully someone will chime in.