By armanjava on
I'm trying to create taxonomy so that if the user creates a node, they are given one vocabulary list(i.e. countries) and based on their selection, a seperate but related vocabulary shows with a drop down of those terms(i.e. states) and subsequently continues.. cities... institutions in those cities... etc...
I'm using the taxonomy module with the nodeprofile, nodefamily and usernode modules to create a custom profile creation page that needs to reflect the above required taxonomy hierarchy and appropriate dynamic creation of linked taxonomy vocabularies... I can't figure it out though.. can someone please help me??
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FIgured it out...
I'm going to try and mess around with the category module and all it's sub-modules and see if that doesn't take care of it... thanks for taking a look though...
I don't know about everyone
I don't know about everyone else, but I for one would certainly very much appreciate a report-out on solutions to armanjava's query.
One of the problems that I am struggling with is the handling of really big vocabularies (e.g. thousands of terms) - specifically, how a user can reasonably select a specific term from a really big vocabulary.
Armanjava appears to be attempting to address this problem by creating separate subvocabularies, but I'm not clear that this scales well either, as the number of subvocabularies can grow exponentially...
In looking around here, I've seen references to the use of active select with the category module to address armanjava's specific query, but again I'm not clear that this is a viable solution to really large vocabularies...
Are there any examples of production sites using really large vocabularies? What solution was employed?
(My apologies in advance to everyone if it appears that I'm hijacking armanjava's post - it is not my intent whatsoever - I am only attempting to restate what I believe their real underlying issue is, as I share it!)
ActiveSelect
ActiveSelect is the only option as I have been messing around with it for the past day. The fact that it allows dynamic sub-categories based on user's selection allows you to narrow down each container to no more than 10 or 20 terms while having a complete hierarchial vocabulary that can be thousands deep.
Perhaps I need to do more
Perhaps I need to do more homework here... Are you telling me that you are maintaining a single hierarchical vocabulary, and that ActiveSelect lets you dynamically "prune the tree" so that you only deal with the child-terms of some parent term, without having to have physically separate vocabularies for each set of choices? (My issue is the combinatoric rise in the number of separate vocabularies that would have to be accounted for...)
Yes.. I think
Just download and mess around with it. I have one long hierarchy that let's a user select one level and a different set of values shows up... USA shows USA's states UK shows UK's provinces etc...
a module for this?
Has anyone written a module to apply activeselect to any hierarchical taxonomy?
Seems like this would be useful to a lot of people, myself now being one of them.
I am also looking for
I am also looking for something similar.
Yes! Use ActiveSelect and Category
See http://drupal.org/node/74747.
Tons of probs w/ category.module
The Category Module's Issues queue is pretty scary.
The unforunate thing is that this is the only hierarchical category "prune" feature (w/ ActiveSelect) that I've seen for Drupal. I have so many terms that tagging anything is a pain in the butt, so being able to carve through hierarchies (ie. choose a state and the next list populates with cities in that state) would be much easier than selecting a state and having to then select from a list of cities from all 50 states. Through a variety of methods, I can weave around this a little. My worries are more for users tagging their content.
EDIT: Did a fresh install of Drupal 5.1, and category.module for the most part installed OK (had to manually install wrappers, which was no biggie thanks to the developer's documentation).
However, I was not able to achieve what I wanted to even after following the "success" story and directions in this thread. After numerous attempts, I just could not get through step 4. What was supposed to work for me did not, and until it does, this module's ridiculously-lengthy issues queue is really discouraging me from feeling confident about the module.
Word on the street is that category.module will save me "tons of time" in organizing my content. It would be nice if a caveat was included, like "but you'll spend the rest of your life filing issues while patching bits and pieces of the module's code."
How can users select the categories??????
I have used weblinks and few categories in my site.
but when the user is trying to post the weblink, it is posted without any category.
because the users cant see the categories at all.
so what should i do, so that users will atleast able to see the categories on the page where we post weblink.
please help me out in this. i tried searching a lot. I am bit new to this technology.
so plz help me........
thanks