When I turn on hierarchical select -- which I've got working and is wonderful; kudos to you for such a great, clean module! -- in a taxonomy vocab, the Description disappears from the top of the Vocab in my content form.

I'd like to either increase the character limit in the help field or get the description to display, is there an easy way for a non-developer to do this? Thanks.

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wim leers
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I can't reproduce this. Are you sure you've entered the help text for the vocabulary? That is the text that will be used as a description.

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cgjohnson commented

I've entered both a help text (with limited characters in that field) and a description, but only the help text shows up in this module (in TSS, TSU and regular taxonomy, the description appears above the field, help below.) If there's no way to make description appear, is there a way to lengthen the allowed characters in Help? thanks.

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wim leers
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Ahah, well now we're getting somewhere.

  • A vocabulary description is never displayed to the end-user on forms, hence the description "Description of the vocabulary; can be used by modules."
  • A vocabulary help text on the other hand, is displayed to the end-user on forms, hence the description "Instructions to present to the user when choosing a term."

What you are saying is simply not true. The description of a vocabulary is never displayed on forms.

The only way to length the help text without altering Drupal core's database schemas, is by using hook_form_alter() to set the #description property of the form item. So it will require some code.

P.S.: much help text results in bad usability as well!

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cgjohnson commented

I whole heartedly agree with your postscript! If I had my druthers ...

Oddly, however, the Description WAS showing up on our forms, below the title of our vocab (in this case, Topics). We were using TSS, perhaps that's why. It was actually rather useful to have a few words outlining good data entry practice, and use the Help field for the technical nitty gritty, such as how to select multiples.

Thanks for this response. We'll find a way to live with the limit and skip the coding!

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wim leers
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Ok, excellent :)

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.