By JavaJed on

I'm a newbie, I've successfully (I think) installed Drupal 5.1 along with a bunch of modules, but I can't seem to create my TAXONOMY to organize my content. I see references to VOCABULARY and TERMS, but when in my installation I only see places to create CATEGORIES and CONTAINTERS.

I can try to create categories and containers in either CREATE CONTENT or CONTENT MANAGEMENT, but each time I run into an error. In the SUBMIT CATEGORY form, there is a section titled CATEGORIES. Within that is a drop down menu titled DOMAIN (with a red asterisk next to it). However, there is nothing in the drop down menu to select. When I try to submit the form anyway, I get an error message saying "Domain field is required."

Am I missing a step? Did I screw something up by enabling/disabling parts of the CATEGORIES and CCK modules at various points? Am I approaching this the wrong way? Am I missing a module? Why don't I see anyplace to create VOCABULARY or TERMS?

Thanks for your help!

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vm’s picture

vm commented

Are you using the contrib category.module ? if so and you had no specific need for it, you should consider removing it. As stated on the project page itself, There are some long standing issues with that module.

If you are not using that contrib module, and are using the core taxonomy.module you should first add a vocabulary, after doing so, you can add terms to that vocabulary. This is all done in administer -> categories.

so to recap.

first goto administer -> categories
add a vocabulary
then click on add terms next to that vocabulary item when you are returned to the administer -> categories screen.

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indeman commented

I am a newbie. After spending 16 days and nights installing and uninstalling CMS , wikis, blogs, forums and all kinds of opensource as well as commercial trial software, I decided to invest time on learning and using Drupal just a few days back.

The key attraction to me was something I read on this site about Taxonomy and nodes. I was precisely looking for this kind of thing where :

  1. I have different pieces of content
  2. I want to use them in my web pages in different ways (teasers with "read more" links, entire content contribution, thumbnails of images with "click to view larger image", sorted-filtered-searchable lists of titles authors dates)
  3. I am unable to classify the content pieces into strict "categories" . A content piece could be relevant to more than one "category"
  4. A hierarchical menu structure like a printed book (just categories >> sub-categories >> terms >> content ) will not often help me
  5. I also have use for the comment (on page) facility, search engine and some other minor utilities
  6. I am also expecting people from across the world to contribute content to the site and one day collaborate on some books.
  7. The content pieces linked to different keywords will hopefully contribute to a usable public knowledge base on my subject

Other than the above, I do not have any intention of cluttering up my website with other features including forums or sophisticated user authentication. I will have a very small group of people with access to content creation and they live all over the world.They will be happy to know if others are watching or copying what they write. I hope that Drupal is what I need.I now have this huge task of identifying the right modules, themes and of course figuring out how to put it all together. I am working on this now.

I need a closer look to understand if Drupal uses the terms 'categories' and 'taxonomy' interchangeably at times. Most web designers are likely to be looking for a hierarchical system and they would identify with the term 'categories' . I intend to look closer into the history of drupal in using these terms so that I am clear about the way taxonomy & categories are linked. It is therefore understandable when a new person searching for 'categories' is stuck at the term 'taxonomy'. I was stuck when I came looking for 'taxonomy' but found 'categories' discussed on the same page as taxonomy. I hope that Taxonomy is what i think it is.
Indeman from India

vm’s picture

vm commented

The definition of Taxonomy is the science or technique of classification. (more on the definition of taxonomy can be found : http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/taxonomy)

That being said, taxonomy and cateorgies are often used interchangably on Drupal.org. The problem that seems to have occured over time is that Drupal has a taxonomy.module included in core, but a contrib developer created a module called category.module. Drupal 5.x recently switched the terminology from administer -> taxonomy to adminsiter -> categories to make it a bit easier.

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JavaJed commented

Thanks for your help. I removed the Category module. But I can't find "categories" under the "administer" menu, so I can't find anyplace to add vocabulary. I also don't see a core "Taxonomy" module in my modules. Should there be one there? There is a taxonomy module within the "category" module section, but I don't think this is the same as the core taxonomy. It's description is "Wrapper module to provide a compatibility layer between the taxonomy module and the category module." Could my core taxonomy module been deleted when I installed the Category taxonomy module?

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vm commented

two choices

1) start your site over if you aren't too deep.

2) read the documentation on the developers website and the readme.txt file. I believe that it takes the core taxonomy and book.module and backs them up by changing their extension. Considering that you still have fragments of the categorey.module (the wrapper) on your system, it does not sound as if this was uninstalled 100% properly.

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JavaJed commented

I figured out the problem. My core taxonomy module had been replaced by the category taxonomy module. I deleted the new module and reinstalled the core module, and now I'm in business! ...I hope.

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vm commented

I hope you removed the DB tables and such that the module may have added. There is an uninstall link in adminsiter -> modules that should be used.

JavaJed’s picture

JavaJed commented

I just removed the incorrect module from the directory and re-uploaded the correct module. Didn't uninstall first. So far Taxonomy seems to be working fine, but are there problems should I look out for?

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vm commented

specific problems, I don't know, It did not take me long, in a test environment to decide that the category.module was more trouble then it was worth. At that point, I reinstalled a backup of my test site that was taken before the module was enabled.

If it were me, I'd be playing it safe now, rather than sorry later.