keyword confusion [#404680]

Hi,
I'm lost between the two types of keyword saving :-)

Before I upgraded from -rc2 to 1.1, my biblio_keyword and biblio_keyword_data were empty. Everything was stored as taxonomy term. After upgrading to 1.1, both tables were suddenly filled and now contain all keywords. Keywords for the existing records are still showing fine.

But now, imported keywords from bibtex go into biblio_keywords but not into taxonomy terms, because I don't see any keywords (we don't show the biblio_keywords field, just the taxonomy). But I can see them in the DB biblio_keyword table.

However, when I create a new node with keywords, those go into the taxonomy vocabulary, but NOT into biblio_keywords. I remember that you once said you were planning to drop biblio_keywords and do everything via taxonomy. Has this changed because the biblio_keyword table was now populated from an empty state?

And what's wrong, the saving of new keywords or the bibtex import? How can I make those two behave the same?

Comments

Comment #1

Frank Steiner commented 17 March 2009 at 13:23

Ah, ok , got this one. The checkbox for the taxonomy free tags got turned off during the upgrade. After turning it on again it now works on import.

But I still wonder why even without this setting the keywords went into taxonomy when saving a new node and not into the biblio_keywords table?

However, let me ask about your plans: I would prefer to have my keywords in biblio_keywords instead of using taxonomy terms because taxonomy stuff is ugly to handle. So do you think you will drop one of the solutions some time? Or will biblio_keywords be kept forever and the taxonomy stuff just stay an optional addon?

Comment #2

rjerome commented 17 March 2009 at 13:21

Yes, I did abandon the plan to use taxonomy exclusively because it lead to a situation where keywords can become separated from publications and there was no easy way to put them back together.

You should however still be able to use both. To get imported keywords into taxonomy vocabularies, go the "admin/settings/biblio" in the "keyword" section and select "Use keywords from biblio entries as taxonomy "free tags"" and the choose the vocabulary to put them in. Now imported keywords should go both places.