Hi there!

I'm using FeedAPI and Feed Element Mapper to generate nearly all content on my site.
At the moment i'm mapping the date-, embed- and titlefield. All other fields are mostly taxonomy fields which i enter manualy.
The reason why i don't map the taxonomy fields directly is because they may have a different spelling or might be written wrong some times,
which would probably end i a bunch of taxonomy terms with the same meaning.

To make it clear:
E.g. i want to map the Michael Jackson feed.
The author of the feed is Michael, but on my site the taxonomy term is Michael Jackson.
It would be great to point the feed author to the taxonomy term, like Michael -> Michael Jackson
or set a default taxonomy value inside the mapper that every item on this feed node belongs to Michael Jackson.

If this would be possible (it maybe already is), it would save me a lot of time without spamming my site with duplicated taxonomy entries...

regards

alex

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alex_b commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Hi Alex,

that's a great feature request and I whished I had such a tool myself...

This functionality is ideally implemented independently from FEMP. This could be an add on module that automatically maps taxonomy term synonyms to their term name.

taxonomy_term_mapper?

You could post this idea to http://groups.drupal.org/contributed-module-ideas and give it a shout out on the devel list.

I close this issue for now. Feel free to post back on this thread if you've got questions.

Alex

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pkej commented

Afaik the modules http://drupal.org/project/synonyms and http://drupal.org/project/unitag are the modules you need. The Unitag module will change all synonyms listed for a term to the term. Have you tried that in conjunction with the FEMP?

The Synonyms module will let the search engine use synonyms in its results.

Both works great on http://www.samipath.com

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alexkessler commented

I tested both modules and it looks like that the unitag module fits my needs. (thx pkej for the hint).

For everbody who needs a simular feature:
Unitag lets you set synonym replacement like pkej described above,
but also let you set any freetagging taxonomy to read-only.
Thats really cool, because you don't have a taxonomy term stored,
until you approve it.

I still can't set default values for none freetagging vacabularies
with this solution, but it's a step forward in the right direction.

@alex_b: Thx for your answer. Maybe this modules helps you too...

Alex