How to make CCK Taxonomy fields of children nodes automatically inherit terms defined in a parent node? [#456568]

Hello kratib,

First of all, thanks a lot for this very interesting module. Please could you have a quick look on this thread I started in the forum a few days ago, and let us know if the actual or a next version of VBO could help in any way. If not possible yet, consider this as a feature request instead. I think that providing such a feature would make your module even more interesting for more than one of us... "How to make CCK Taxonomy fields of children nodes automatically inherit terms defined in a parent node?"

(I think that this feature could be linked to this one, dedicated to cck fields bulk editing, in some way: http://drupal.org/node/358617 )

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Comment #1

infojunkie

Vancouver

commented 7 May 2009 at 18:17

Assigned:	Unassigned	» infojunkie
Category:	support	» feature

What you're asking for is a very specific piece of logic, that only applies to parent-child relationships between nodes. I would advise to write an action that, given a list of parent (or children) nodes, copies the relevant terms from its children (or to its parent, respectively). You can then use that action through VBO.

Alternatively, you could try to use the CCK fields bulk editing action, and write custom code in the Code section of that action to pull the terms from the children nodes.

Either way, you will need to write code that manipulates taxonomy fields. I unfortunately cannot commit to working on that feature request in the near future, but I'd be glad to help out if someone else undertakes this effort.