I have the module installed and a separate Taxonomy list of my other 'Authors'. That part I get. What I am not grasping, is now how to 'assign' multiple authors. Example, I have a page I created as the admin but want to have it co-authored by another author. This will work with my permissions set up based on this taxonomy (I am trying to build access to everything based off this taxonomy list - who can edit what, etc.). So how exactly do I assign another author? If I go to this page and select 'edit mode', scroll along to bottom of page there is the 'Authoring information' box. Is there a syntax (format) to include another author? Do I just delete 'admin' and put in the other author? If I delete and replace, how is that multiple authored?

Again, this may be blindingly obvious but I am somewhat of a noob to Drupal but really loving it. I tried just googling this for help but all comes back to this page :(

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spython commented

I guess you should just add a taxonomy field for your author taxonomy in cck for your content type, and mark it as multiple. I guess the Content Taxonomy module will help you in adding a taxonomy field in cck. Then you can assign multiple authors to your node.

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todd nienkerk commented

Gumbytie: I suspect you have not assigned whatever vocabulary you're using as the "author taxonomy" to the proper content type.

  • Go to Admin > Content management > Taxonomy.
  • Select "edit vocabulary" next to the vocabulary that contains your author terms (your "author taxonomy").
  • Check off the content type you wish to assign multiple authors to.
  • Under "Settings," check off "Multiple Select" if you want to choose authors from a multiple select box. Check "Tags" if you want to use free-tagging to create author names on the fly.
  • Click "Save."
  • You should now be able to add multiple authors, as the author vocabulary will appear in the "edit" interface for nodes of the content type you selected in the step above.
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spython commented

That is of course the easiest way. Just thought of Content Taxonomy as in my case I am using it with the Hierarchical Select module.

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Gumbytie commented

Not sure on proper etiquette here. These answers were great and resolved my issue, thank you. Should I mark this as closed under status?

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todd nienkerk commented
Assigned: Unassigned » todd nienkerk
Status: Active » Fixed

@Gumbytie: To mark an issue resolved, just leave a new comment explaining what was fixed and change "Status" to "fixed" (and I'm doing now).

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.