By ubersoft on

Obviously when you upgrade from one full point release to another (i.e., 6 to 7) things are going to change and work differently. But I'm a little thrown by this one.

In Drupal 6, /admin/content/node allowed you to refine your search in three ways:

  • by status (published, not published, stickied, etc)
  • by type (node type, i.e. article, blog, book, etc)
  • and by category (which let you choose taxonomies)

This last bit - the ability to refine the search by category -- was extremely useful to me because I use taxonomy a lot -- for example, I have a node type called "webcomic" that I use to upload all my comics, and I classify them with a webcomic taxonomy (hd, kp, osw, pc).

So if I wanted to find all 22 of my Old Skool Webcomic strips in D6 I'd go to /admin/content/node, and enter the following information:

status: published
type: webcomic
category: webcomic/osw

And then I could do whatever I needed with the results. (Make sticky, unsticky, convert with template, whatever).

And I can do this for more complicated pieces of information, too. Because I tag all the characters appearing in each comic, I can use admin/content/node to search only for comics that have, say, Binky appearing in them. Or for comics that have a specific storyline tag on them, because they're all taxonomy tags that appear in the category drop-down.

In Drupal 7, the link has changed to admin/content, but the general functionality is still there -- exceptt he ability to search by category is missing! This was, apparently, removed from Drupal 7. And I assume that wasn't done at random, that there was a solid reason for it--but it's inconvenienced me quite a bit.

Is there any way in Drupal 7 to duplicate this lost functionality? It's not just the ability to search for those nodes, but also the ability to use the associated update options on them that is so useful. I have more than 2,000 entries in my webcomic node type (it represents over 15 years of comics) so being able to refine my search as much as possible is really useful!

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ubersoft commented

Well, I guess no one knows why. The next thing is to figure out how to manage without it.

I don't suppose there's a module out there that will add the ability to filter by taxonomy back?