By Turkish Delight on
Hello, how are you doing? I am somewhat new to Drupal, and need a little help with a hierarchy problem I'm having. I am setting up a website that has several sub-categories, though I also need the ability to let users freetag those categories and have those tags properly ancestored. For example, the upper levels of my categories are country/state andor province/city, and since it would be difficult for me to collect all of that information on my own and set up ancestors properly I would like my users to do that when they add a new node. Do you have any suggestions? I have coded php in the past, so if I need to it would not be a problem. Thank you very much for your time!
-Demir
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but how?
The hard part is imagining what the UI you want to see would look like and work.
Freetagging is naturally flat (CF 'folksonomy) and while you can also use heirarchy with it, it's hard to get freetagging users to actually maintain that.
I can imagine a system whereby the submit function does some logic and decides that any new tags it sees should be set as children of the deepest existing tag it knows about, but that could lead to some bizarrely unintuative guesses and real errors of classification.
Otherwise, draw a picture of the widgets you imagine would be required...
Either way, it's tricky work, and not, AFAIK existing yet.
.dan.
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Category Module
I installed and have been tooling around the Category module since yesterday and have also gone to their website. It seems that I can set up this particular hierarchy with Containers that would represent the Taxonomy and Categories that would represent the Terms. I set the containers as parents/children and of course to allow freetagging to the content, however when I try to post new content the hierarchy and/or containers do not show up. Any ideas? Thanks!
-Demir