At http://drupal.org/node/24702 I asked how to link together users and taxonomies. I now see that you can use the profile module to categorize users. This is called "adding a list selection" to the user profile - http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/profile - that is ok - the profile module has its own "mini taxonomy" functionality.

In addition, the profile module should let you select from taxonomies for user profile values. Just like the "node code" leverages the taxonomy module. HTe profile module can keep its basic list generation, but it should also support extending the user profile by selecting taxonomies.

It would make the profile module a lot more powerful. We can have hierarchical profile values. We can tag users and content to the same taxonomy values, when it makes sense to do so. And so on.

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magico’s picture

magico commented
Version: 4.6.0 » x.y.z

Does this make sense?

Fransie’s picture

Fransie commented

I think it makes a lot of sense to be able to couple users to taxonomy . In my case, we use use a Drupal site on our intranet for sharing knowledge in our organisation. We have made a taxonomy of subjects. For example: gardening, cooking and programming. It would be very nice if users could select taxonomy terms in their profiles to make known in which fields they consider themselves knowlegeable. This would create the possibility of creating lists of users that are experts in a certain field or combination of fields. You could select the subject 'cooking' and immediately see which people know something about it. One could then easily make a function that lets you write an e-mail message to that group of people. Or get their names and telephone numbers. Or you could Drupal to find out that you have nobody in your organization that knows someting about programming. Or you could find out which people have interests matching your own... It would open up many interesting ways of using Drupal and its already powerful taxonomy system.

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Fransie commented

There seem to be a lot of developments going in this direction. I have compiled a list of what I could find:

A taxonomy patch for profile.module by jaxxed: http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/profile#comment-112871
A taxonomy patch for profile.module by wiz: http://drupal.org/node/19014
The 'profileplus' module, which may have users as nodes: http://drupal.org/node/51057
The node profile module: http://drupal.org/node/65387
Profiles as nodes: http://groups.drupal.org/profiles-as-nodes

I really hope that in the near future it will be possible to link users to taxonomy, one way or the other.

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rjaiswal commented
Version: x.y.z » 5.0

Can anybody tell me how to I can use existing taxonomy categories in Profile module to extend the user profile?

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aschiwi commented

The way I see it, you can use nodeprofile to do that. Nodeprofile makes profiles nodes. That way, you can assign your taxonomy to the content type of profile which in the end gives you taxonomy tagged users. Worked for me. Note that nodeprofile requires a couple other modules to work.

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magico commented
Version: 5.0 » 7.x-dev
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Leeteq commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

New field type for profile: taxonomy
http://drupal.org/node/19014