Term Fields

archard - January 28, 2009 - 02:44

Term Fields allows you to define fields for taxonomy terms in the same way that CCK allows you to define fields for nodes.

Possible uses for this module

You own a book review site where you use the Taxonomy module to classify book reviews by the book author. You've created a view that lists all book authors on the site, but instead of just listing the author's name, you'd like to include some biographical information as well, such as the author's date of birth.
You have a video game fansite where your classify news, reviews, and images with a vocabulary where all the terms are games. You want to create an index of all games on your site, but instead of just listing the name of the game, you want to list the game's release date, publisher and platform.
You have a recipes site where recipes are nodes and are classified with a vocabulary where the terms are the chefs who created the recipes. Again, you want to list all the chefs with a view, but you also want to list their favorite recipe next to their name.

Any situation where taxonomy terms need more than just a title and a description is where Term Fields comes in to use.

Views Integration

This module is fully views integrated. Every field you create will have fields/filters/arguments/sorts, depending on what type of field it is. It will only work for views of type Term.

Development version

The development version of Term Fields contains the latest bug fixes and features. It is generally considered stable, and its use is encouraged for testing purposes.

The latest development version has added support for file upload fields. In views, only the file ID will show up as a field. It is expected that the developer will then use the file ID to theme the field how they so desire.