Hi.

This is my setup:

My vocabulary
Books
Games
-xbox
-playstation
Clothes
-pants
-hats

etc.

And I have 1 node type for Books, 1 for Games etc.

I want it to be simple for the editors of the site so when they create or edit a game they only see terms related to games and so fourth. This module does that perfectly, but I have a problem when it comes to "Books" because it has no children. The ideal solution for me would be that when they create a book the select list is just hidden and the term book is selected by default so the book is categorized in "Books" without the editors having to do anything.

But when I set "Books" as the parent term for the book node type I just get a blank select list (obviously because "Books" has no children) and when I create a book node I can't even assign it to "Books", which I think should happen automatically because I set it as the parent term so I obviously want it categorized in "Books".

I hope this isn't too unclear. :)

Basically I would like to know how I can make book nodes be categorized as "Books" by default when I have set the parent term to be "Books".

PS: The reason I have separated my products both by node type and vocabulary is that I have entirely different node form layouts and cck fields for each node type and I also needed the taxonomy structure for child terms as stated above.

Cheers,
Øyvind Strømsvik

Comments

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twiik commented

Hmm, I guess I could just leave out selecting a parent term and then set the default term to "Books" and hide the select list on the node form manually.

Straight forward and does exactly what I wanted. :)

I'll leave this issue as is for now because I still think the module should set the parent term as the default term if the parent term has no children.