Currently, a free tagging field can only have a limited amount of terms. Ideally it should be able to have as many terms as a regular controlled vocabulary.

I don't really know what is involved, but I would suggest a text area.

Anisa.
PS. filing this as per suggestion on drupal support ML.

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greggles’s picture

Version: 4.7.2 » x.y.z

Thanks anisa. I'm moving this to cvs version since that's more likely where it will be implemented.

Also, the discussion on the support list about this we felt that a decent UI for this would be to have a one line textarea that could be expanded down to show more terms as you type them in.

I'm not sure if the ajax-autocomplete-throbber solution works in textareas or not.

One drawback to this solution is that if the javascript for expanding the textarea fails (or is disabled on the client side) then it would seem to limit the ability of the user to enter in more terms.

Other possible UI that we discussed were having a "need more terms" button that would do one of two things:

1) add an N+1 input area for more terms

2) submit the current row as a set of terms and clear out the taxonomy input box to allow more terms in the same box

pablov2’s picture

Are there any solution now to increase the lenght?? any modification of code or some thing else ??

thanks

vickil5’s picture

Version: x.y.z » 5.3

I'm interested in this feature too, has there been any activity? I sometimes need 150+ surnames tagged on an image page Resorted to adding a "surname_field", can do a site search on it, but lose all the taxonomy features. I'm not a programmer, so am hoping for something "out of the box".
Thanks.

greggles’s picture

Version: 5.3 » 7.x-dev

This is a feature, so if it happens it will happen in the dev version, not in a current stable release.

Stephan_M’s picture

I would need to enter more tags /more characters into the free-tagging field too.

Can i do this perhaps with a php_template on taxonomy.module to change the possible input-length of the field?

tsvenson’s picture

I just stumbled on this one as well. The current limit is 128 character.

Even though this issue is a Feature Request, it should still be possible to change the maxlimit value for D7.

tsvenson’s picture

Version: 7.x-dev » 7.0
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

This seems to be fixed now. In 7.0 I managed to use 244 characters in this field.