Users seeing drop-down instead of checkboxes.

Hi,

I had this problem too and I just found the solution! (After much stepping through the code, trying to understand how it renders this control, I might add - still I did get PHPEclipse debugging working which will probably be useful :-)

Anyway ...

You can get a multiple select listbox instead of a dropdown by editing the vocabulary and enabling the "multiple select" option. It says "always true for free-tagging" but that seems to be misleading.

I'm only guessing about the checkboxes part - it looks like you need to using theming to achieve this - try creating a "taxonomy_term_select.tpl.php" file in a phptemplate theme and see if you can override the html SELECT control it normally generates. I've only been poking around inside drupal's implementation for a few days, so I could be wrong about this ;-)

Cheers,

David.

Indeed, one needs to ensure the multiple select option is checked in order to set the vocabulary's attributes correctly.

I have played around with minor changes trying to get checkboxes to show, to no avail. However, I am considering changing the selection list method such that it will create checkboxes (which will be a setting).

Okay, I changed the way the selection lists were built and now you have checkboxes as an option (on the settings page).

I'd like a little feedback on this, though. Right now, if you select checkboxes, you get checkboxes if the vocabulary allows multiple choices and radio buttons if it doesn't. I don't think this is right. Just because the user can't select multiple when creating a node doesn't mean they don't want to see nodes from more than one of those terms. I think it's more appropriate to always allow multiple choices in Taxonomy Browser. What do you think?

Nancy, what was your fix? please help.

I need to get checkboxes and radiobuttons to show in addition to dropdowns.