Edit term

Benjamin Melançon - October 14, 2007 - 15:17

Edit term provides links on taxonomy listing pages to directly edit taxonomy terms.

UPDATE: With a patch from new co-maintainer Dan Morrison (dman), edit_term will become 75% more Drupaly as it provides view and edit tabs directly on taxonomy listing pages.

This makes it easier to immediately edit term name, synonyms, description, and weight for the term you are viewing without navigating through your site's administrative back end.

On the term edit page, you also have the new ability to set an URL-alias for the term directly, and create and position a menu item - the same way as can be done for nodes. See illustration.

Once changes are made, you are returned to the listing page from which you started, cutting normal term management procedure down from a dozen clicks to just two.

A block is also provided that provides similar functionality.

This is a very simple module and creates no database tables. Agaric is quite open to extending this module with optional on-page forms, or edit links next to term links, or mind-reading functionality, but we have no immediate plans. A block with an edit link is sufficient to bring taxonomy into line with the ease-of-use front-end editing access Drupal users have come to expect from nodes, users, views, panels, etc.

(It belatedly occurs to Agaric that there may be a taxonomy information block module that includes an edit link. Contact us with any leads. Also, on IRC |Gatsby| suggested the NAT module to be able to treat terms as nodes and edit information that way.)

The main features left to look at are how automatically to find and display itself for uses of taxonomy that override the taxonomy/term menu structure. We've hardcoded it for image, but it would be nice to read off the same table taxonomy redirect manipulates to make this work for all well-coded modules and custom taxonomy_redirect overrides.

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