By jontheil@gmail.com on

I have decided to introduce a more structured access control on my site. It should be based on access control/category permissions for different types of users. However, much of the existing content haven't been assigned any categories yet.
Is there a simple way to assign categories to multiple existing nodes? Maybe I could use phpMyAdmin somehow?
Regards, Jon

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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prokopton’s picture

prokopton commented

Hello,

This worked for me:

1) Create your categories and subcategories and make sure you assign stories, pages, or blogs that you want to relate to those categories in the Edit Vocab option.

2) Logon as the Admin, and for each article click the Edit tab. You should be able to assign the article to the newly created categories and subcategories.

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Tresler commented

There is a module that works for 4.6 and has a "working" version for 4.7
http://drupal.org/node/11869

look at the issues queue to get a 4.7 version. Good luck.

Sam Tresler
http://www.treslerdesigns.com

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jontheil@gmail.com commented

Thanks for your idea, I could use that functionality also. I can tell you that I installed the latest version and it seemed to work allright for version 4.73. But I would very much like to assign my own terms to my nodes. Btw I think my problem wouldn't completely be solve anyway, since it seems that blogs cannot use the taxonomy. Hope I'm wrong.
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Jon Theil Nielsen

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Tresler commented

Guess I am confused or need more details. After you have created the terms they are available in the multi-editor interface. If you want *free-tagging* in a multi-editor that is different.

Also, all terms *can* be available to any node depending on how you configure the vocabulary. I assure you that blogs can use any vocabulary and definitely can use taxonomy.

What exactly are you trying to do?

Sam Tresler
http://www.treslerdesigns.com

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jontheil@gmail.com commented

Now, in the mean time, the situation has changed a bit, since my server broke down and I had to reinstall completely. What I want to do is to make some kind of hierarchy on the site. In that context I tried to figure out how to use taxonomy while I was writing in my own blog an a regularly basis. When I thougt I had made an useful hierarchy, I couldn't figure out how to assign the right terms to my blog posts afterwards.
Now I am trying to use the category module which seems to more simple - but I haven't succeeded yet.
Thanks for your reply and interest anyway.
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Jon Theil Nielsen

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ggevalt commented

Sorry to hear you've been having those kinds of problems....

I think that taxonomy and categories are a bit hard to grasp when you are starting off or beginning to organize the content. It's almost as if you need content first to determine how you are going to structure the various categories which are, after all, just an easier way for your users to navigate.

Given that you are in rebuild phase, you might want to look at your content and determine what major types or categories of content you have and need and what sub-categories are necessary. I did that with my site and found that it really helped me visualize what I was doing. It also helped me decide that some ideas I had for categories were simply not worth it.

The other thing to do is put in multiple vocabulary keywords for your content. Then, when you come to the point of needing to focus your taxonomy a little bit better, you can just eliminate (or simply not use) some of the sub categories you find aren't useful. And THAT is a lot easier to deal with than having to re-edit each item to insert a new keyword/vocab.

And on that score, I'm afraid I can't help you on mass insertion of keywords/vocabs/categories. Maybe someone else out there knows -- it would, in fact, be useful, as a site gets older and has more content, to be able to highlight certain types of content and change the keyword/vocab/category all at once.

geoff gevalt
http://www.youngwritersproject.org

geoff gevalt
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bones commented

Did you find a solution for this? I am looking to be able to do this too.