I've been asked to create a Content Type that contains a lots of fields (around 10) each containing lost of checkboxes. Each field option list won't get any longer that what's listed below.
Eg.
Presidents_field:
* Washington, George
* Adams, John
* Jefferson, Thomas
* Madison, James
* Monroe, James
* Adams, John Quincy
* Jackson, Andrew
* Van Buren, Martin
* Harrison, William Henry
* Tyler, John
US_Universities:
* A.T. Still University of Health Sciences (AZ / MO)
* Abilene Christian University (TX)
* Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (GA)
* Academy of Art University (CA)
* Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin (TX)
* Adams State College (CO)
* Adelphi University (NY)
* Adler Graduate School (MN)
* Adler School of Professional Psychology (IL)
* Adrian College (MI)
* Agnes Scott College (GA)
* AIB College of Business (IA)
* Air Force Institute of Technology (OH)
Hospitals_by_Specialty
* Cancer Hospitals
* Cardiology & Heart Surgery Hospitals
* Diabetes & Endocrinology Hospitals
* Orthopedics Hospitals
Hospitals_by_City
* Chicago Hospitals
* Dallas-Fort Worth Hospitals
* Los Angeles Hospitals
* New York City Hospitals
* Philadelphia Hospitals
The client wants to be an easy way to maintain (add or delete items) to each field. I was originally thinking about the usual Select List Widgets (Text>>Select List). But Then I found out about Content Toxonomy Fields (Content toxonomy fields >> Select List) and now I don't know which way is better :(
I don't know if this matters in but he(client) also wants to eventually export data collected in a CVS format.
What are the advantages or disadvantages of each?
Thanks everyone.
C
Comments
If the client wants to be
If the client wants to be able to add values I would use taxonomies (i generally prefer them of select lists). Otherwise you would need to give the client the ability to edit content types and that can easily lead to trouble.
taxonomy might be the way to
taxonomy might be the way to go. I just don't know its implications....like if I wanted to theme the it later or if I wanted to do CSV Export. I found a nice taxonomy module I will it a try http://drupal.org/node/1251940.
thanks
C