Currently there is no text to indicate what happens with newly created vocabularies. No instruction or simple explanation on how they get assigned to a content type for use. In D6 it was part of creating the vocabulary. This is very confusing, and I believe the thought will be that once it is created it will just show up for selection when creating content. That it then needs to be added to the content type after you create the vocabulary in a completely different area isn't indicated anywhere, this is not intuitive to a user.

I would suggest two changes.
1. On the Taxonomy landing page (I think that's what you call it) where it says currently:
Taxonomy is for categorizing content. Terms are grouped into vocabularies. For example, a vocabulary called "Fruit" would contain the terms "Apple" and "Banana".
Should include:
Add a term reference field to any content type you want to assign to your created vocabularies.

2. On the Structure page where it says:
Manage content types, including default status, front page promotion, comment settings, etc.
Should be changed to:
Manage content types, including default status, front page promotion, comment settings, assigned vocabularies, etc.

You may also want to add a note to the admin/structure/taxonomy/add page
After creating your vocabulary add a term reference field to all the content types you would like to include this vocabulary.

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davidneedham’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Feel free to add your suggestions from this post to that one, but this is a dup of #719424: Usability: on taxonomy vocabulary page, document new way of applying to content types.