The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.I created a test csv file for my CCK "News Item" and included category names in the first row and category terms under the headers.
In the import wizard, I saw no option to map the categories anywhere. They were just ignored.
What am I missing?
KTNK.
Comments
Comment #1
ktnk commentedOK, just in case, I deleted the node_import module, upgraded to the latest release, ran update.php, and tried again.
- There are no category options in the mappings
- If I create a test taxonomy, then it appears in the mapping dropdown as test taxonomy
If I select it and do an import, the value does not get imported although there are no errors in the import.
- The funny thing is that in the categories show up in the next page, and I am asked to choose the categories that will apply to all the imports (not useful, I need to assign individual categories to each item)
When I do the import, the selected category settings don't take effect.
Please help,
Ktnk.
Comment #2
Robrecht Jacques commentedIs the category.module or taxonomy.module?
If the first, did you enable the taxonomy wrapper?
Comment #3
ktnk commentedHi Thanks for the response, I appreciate the attention:
On my drupal 5 installation, I have the following modules enabled:
Category
Category Legacy
Legacy
Taxonomy
There is no taxonomy wrapper available in my modules list.
Do I need to download it separately from somewhere?
thanks
ktnk.
Comment #4
shunshifu commentedYou can enable taxonomy wrapper by going to
admin/content/category/settings
Phil
Comment #5
ktnk commentedOh, I figured that out, thanks.
But enableing the taxonomy wrapper wreaked a bit of havok on the rest of my site (mainly acidfree albume)
So I disabled the wrapper and created separate taxonomies, and that worked well in all my site except for node_import which would see the taxonomy, pretend to import it, but the content never got tagged.
So I finally parted with any remaining category dependancy on my site (through a handful of workarounds), disabled the category module, and voila!
Imports with taxonomy now work.
Comment #6
shunshifu commentedThis worked fine on a site running 5.2. with the category module. Nodes were imported and placed in the proper categories. However I just tried it several times on a 4.7 site and experienced the same problem as you. It appeared to work but the categories were not assigned.
I really must upgrade that site but it would be great if I could get this working on 4.7.
Phil
Comment #7
Robrecht Jacques commented4.7.x and 5.x versions are no longer supported.
Category module seems deprecated - I don't think support for 6.x-1.x is needed.