Provide helper theme function to render selection on node view in a dropbox table

Which browser is this? Are you sure you're using an unmodified version? Did any Javascript errors occur?

It's because the JS failed to hide the multiple select, for some odd reason.

Do you have any other JS-powered modules installed?

I might have some additional information to help trace the cause of this behaviour.

First of all, it is only happening when there are multiple vocabularies assigned to a content-type. If there is only one vocabculary then everything works as expected.

Tested on a clean Drupal install, with jquery_update/jquery_interface modules correctly installed

• Firefox 3 (Macintosh & Windows XP)
• Safari 3 (Macintosh)

Attached are two screenshots, one from Firefox and the other Safari.

*** ADDITIONAL INFO *** - AFter posting this ticket, just discovered that the problem goes away if the Categories fieldset is NOT collapsed by default. I was collapsing programmatically in a custom module, and having it expanded by default made the odd behaviour go away.

Hm, does this mean the issue is solved now?

I guess I'm happy enough now! Will examine source though as I have a feeling the 'bug' may be something as simple as a jQuery .toggle() that's conflicting with the already-hidden standard Taxonomy fields i.e. The behaviour is now reversed.

You'll have to theme it as that kind of table yourself. Hierarchical Select just provides an input widget… I guess I could provide a helper theme function to do this though.

Actually, in HS 2, there already is such a function: theme_hierarchical_select_render_dropbox(). Just feed it the information in the right format and it will work.

So, now moving to HS 3.

In HS 3, I use the Forms API to render everything, so it won't be very easy to provide similar functionality there. I've not yet decided whether I want to add support for it there as well, because that'd become… pretty tricky, or at least very ugly for the themer.

Definitely postponed.

Better title.

On second thought, what you have requested, is a non-issue. All you have to do, is write a mini form like and render it:

$form['some-hierarchical-select'] = array(
  '#type' => 'hierarchical_select',
    '#hierarchical_select_settings' => array(
      'module' => 'taxonomy',
      'params' => array(
        'vid' => $vid,
      ),
    ),
  '#multiple' => TRUE,
  // and so on
);

$output = drupal_render($form);

*But*:
- you still get the hierarchical select then
- the "Remove" links are still there

Which is at the very least confusing.

So if I want to fix all that (i.e. fix the *real* issue), I will indeed have to provide a function to which you can pass the selected items, the parameters for rendering (since you also need to rebuild the hierarchy for just rendering this seemingly simple table) and then it's ready. This is ultra-low priority though (most people want output to be different from input), so this might take … many months. Sorry.

See #516782: Theme function to display lineages when viewing nodes, where exactly this is implemented.