Hierarchical Taxonomy - getting it to show subitems
Gidgidonihah - March 16, 2009 - 21:01
I have pretty simple content on my site. Most of which are catalog items. I have a hierarchical taxonomy that looks something like this:
Catalog
- Home
- Bookmarks
- bm 1
- bm 2
- bm 3
- Cases
- thing 1
- thing 2
- thing 3
<snip>
- Office
<snip>When I have items tagged with bookmarks, they show up on the page for bookmarks. Great, but they don't show up on the level above that.
So despite the fact that I have bookmarks and cases, if I click on home, there's nothing there.
Basically this same taxonomy is the structure for the menu system as well. I figured taxonomy would be the easiest way to do this. If I click on catalog, I want it to show all catalog items. Home, show only the items under home and so on.
I just don't know how to get it to behave like this.
Suggestions?
Despite all the trumpets and
Despite all the trumpets and fanfares about taxonomy system,
I don't think Drupal supports proper hierarchical taxonomy.
I think the only way to currently do what you want is use the /all parameter in the url.
Eg. if 'bookmarks' has a term id of 3, then taxonomy/term/3/all
will display a teaser list of nodes tagged with 'bookmarks', 'bm1', 'bm2', or 'bm3'.
This list can be aliased to something nicer like: domain.com/bookmarks
And perhaps you can do something with the /all parameter in a Views2 'argument',
although I don't understand Views arguments, so I don't know whether that is useful or possible.
Ok, thanks for that. It's
Ok, thanks for that. It's what I was looking for. I'll give that a try and report back. Thanks!
Looks like that's working
Looks like that's working well. Just one more question.
What would be the link to show all items that belong the vocabulary?
But I don't know the url to list all the items in a vocab. Taxonomy menu just has a link like taxonomy/term/1 2 3 4 ... 67
I'm basically doing what taxonomy menu does, but the urls that it creates just won't work for me. I'd much rather have /taxonomy/term/1/all than taxonomy/term/1 2 3 4 5 6
> What would be the link to
> What would be the link to show all items that belong the vocabulary?
I know... I nearly fell out of my chair when I found out that you couldn't do that for vocabs.
You'll definitely need a module for that. Check out the ones Worldfallz mentioned.
Although, I've never had much luck with taxonomy modules actually doing what I expected/needed.
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Another option that's very useful is the http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_list module-- and it includes the 'taxonomy/vocabulary/vid' feature.
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I fixed this problem with the hierarchical_select module-- it has an option to force saving the entire hierarchy. There are also several contributed modules that handle displaying a hierarchical taxonomy in different ways (i.e. taxonomyblocks, taxonomy_context, submenutree).
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Hi, Taxonomy_menu D6 version
Hi,
Taxonomy_menu D6 version 2 has hierarchical menu as an option.
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