taxonomy.module - duplicate terms allowed in same vocabulary
macgirvin - December 13, 2005 - 18:19
| Project: | Aggregator2 |
| Version: | 4.6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
This issue arose when using the autotaxonomy feature of aggregator2 and I have filed appropriately there. When a new term is created, there is no checking that the term doesn't already exist in the same vocabulary. It can be observed without aggregator2. Create a new term. Create another with the same term name. It is created without complaint. This can cause a great deal of confusion and headaches when importing terms from other sources.
I don't believe that the module should complain about the duplicate term. It should simply ignore the creation of a new term node and return the term that is already there (so it doesn't break things like aggregator2 - which populates its data with the returned term id).
#1
I have a different approach. I would suggest that we have a means of merging those duplicate taxonomy terms. I dont think that one can prevent the "duplicate" terms from being created in all circumstances.
#2
In case it is of help to you I am about to create a perl script which merges duplicate taxonomy terms.
#3
I don't think this is a bug but a feature.
What identifies the uniqueness of a term is it ID and not it's name.
#4