Vocab selection should be a selector

Related issue: #623564: Create help text for "Vocabs to use" setting

Coupled with #623564: Create help text for "Vocabs to use" setting this is a UI bug, not a feature request. ;) The field is actually case-sensitive on the vocab tag name, too. ;) I'm a "grey beard" Drupal developer with a ton of experience developing views, and it took me over 10 minutes to get a simple tagcloud block working from when I downloadedthis module (which is very cool, don't get me wrong). This could be dramatically easier to use with a bit of lovin'. ;) Seems like we need a multi-select here, since you could want multiple vocabs in the cloud. If I'm inspired, I might roll a patch for this, but I'm not yet assigning myself -- I've got 100 other things to do on this site I'm building right now...

Here is a patch to make the vocab a multi select. My initial testing is good. I'd love for another to test before I commit.

The patch failed both against 6.x-1.1 and 6.x-dev for me:

$ patch < tagadelic_views-433910-3.patch 
patching file views_plugin_style_tagadelic.inc
Hunk #1 FAILED at 5.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 14.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 26.
3 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file views_plugin_style_tagadelic.inc.rej
patching file theme.inc
Hunk #1 FAILED at 30.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 47.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 63.
3 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file theme.inc.rej

I then applied the changes manually which led to a white screen after flushing the caches.

Thanks Yan, what is in your error log? I'm betting the issue is with the existing view since the options array has changed format. I tried to account for that.

Can you go to admin/build/views and reset the vocab setting for the styles options? http://skitch.com/indytechcook/dkxku/edit-view-neil-d6.local

I'll work on a update function.

My error log didn't contain anything, I just got a blank screem.

Ok, I deleted my view that was using the module and applied the patch again (manually). Now the selector works -- sweet! For some reason I couldn't apply the patch. So I re-created it. Find it attached split up into two files since I don't know how to get two in one file.

What's missing is the update function.

No reviews?

Patch worked for me, thanks! (6.x-1.2)

I can now select from a dropdown...
... but get other error messages, the most meaningful: "Could not find!" :(

Can anyone submit some experience with the module? How does it behave with non-english languages?

Greetings, E.

An alternative approach is to ignore this setting and add an argument of taxonomy vocab id. Still doesn't give you a drop down though, but at least you can use and integer ID instead of a string.

Or better still just add a Filter of taxonomy vocab id and select it from the list there.