By andyisaacson on

Hello,

I am extremely new to Drupal, and just setting up a new site. I would like to be able to have a freeform taxonomy system where any user can tag any content, similar to Slashdot's keywords system, for example. I have been having very little luck setting this up! I tried using the Community Managed Taxonomy module, but any time a user tries to enter a new term they get an error message that doesn't seem to make sense (it asks them to enter a term!) Can anyone offer some advice? Am I going about this wrong?

Thanks!

--Andy

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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martyr13’s picture

martyr13 commented

i'm new to drupal myself, so i don't know how to answer your question exactly, but you might want to check out these screencasts http://theartlab.net/podcast/drupal-school?page=2 some of them deal with taxonomy directly, and there is a lot more good material for drupal beginners.
m.

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ste5eu commented

I wanted to do a similar thing, as per the del.icio.us system.

The way I did it was to create a new Category under the Administer menu option, I just called mine 'General Tags'. I made sure to select all of the check boxes of the content types that I wanted it to be available as a field for and also selected 'Free Tagging'.

Hey presto whenever I create content of any type I get a field into which I can enter any tags I like as a comma separated list.

In addition to this I installed the Tagadelic module so that I could display a cloud with the more heavily used tags in a larger font - it means people are more likely to reuse tags rather than come up with new similar ones.

Hope this helps.

Steve