By kavaXtreme on

Question: Can taxonomy be applied to modules or only nodes?

I need to organize my site by topic, not by module. This means there would be nodes AND modules relating to a single topic displaying on the SAME page. I don't know of any open source CMS that can do this, but I'm hoping Drupal can and I just haven't figured it out.

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crazybooks commented

It depends, I think. For example, I can add polls (which are part of a module) to a taxonomy, you can do this for any content type....you could probably classify a forum in the same way too, but I've never tried creating forums.

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kavaXtreme’s picture

kavaXtreme commented

I tried it with the polls as you mentioned, and that worked for me too. But no luck so far with forums. I can add forum topics to a taxonomy, but not forums themselves. Any suggestions?

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crazybooks commented

I haven't fiddled with forums, although I was under the impression that they themselves were 'classfied' via the taxonomy. I think the best you could do is create a stick post which will stay at the top of the taxonomy, and make it a redirect to the relevant forum.

Any other modules you wish to include in this?

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javanaut commented

AFAIK, the only way to segregate modules using taxonomies is at the Vocabulary level. When you create a Vocabulary, you specify what types of nodes (i.e. node modules) can be posted to that vocabulary. This would, however, leave you with multiple vocabularies on your site.

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Jaza commented

Forum topics are stored as nodes, as so can have the usual limitless amount of taxonomy applied to them. Forums themselves are not nodes - they are actually just taxonomy terms from a vocabulary of your choice. And AFAIK, there is no way to categorise categories!

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kavaXtreme commented

I appreciate the posts! Unfortunately I'm still stuck.

Okay, so what I'm trying to do is make a topic page. Let's call it Cars. On this page I need to have my car weblinks in one segment, car articles in another, and the car forum.

What I'm doing right now is using "taxonomy/term/#" which just throws everything in the Car category onto a page in one big messy jumble... Useless for any kind of halfway serious site work. (The forum topics are all there, but just as individual nodes, not as a properly threaded forum.)

So is there a more refined way of using the taxonomy URL, or do I need to make a page with PHP (which I know NOTHING about), or is there some other option?