Explode list of taxonomy terms only picks up first term or duplicates terms

I seem to be having the same issue with "Auto create" enabled.
Each new import creates a new term with the same name. i.e.
"Counseling & Therapy" -> counseling-therapy
"Counseling & Therapy" -> counseling-therapy-0
"Counseling & Therapy" -> counseling-therapy-1

drupal-7.22
feeds-7.x-2.0-alpha8
feeds_tamper-7.x-1.0-beta4

The fix that seems to have worked for us is to eliminate any blank spaces between the term and the term separator

i.e we had "term1; term2" and needed to make it "term1;term2"
We did this by using the Feeds Tamper trim option to trim both leading and tailing spaces after the explode tamper.

The reason for this is that feeds was looking for the term " term2" with a space but then Drupal was creating a new term without a space, so it never found the ones it had created before since the space was trimmed by Drupal.

Huzzah! Thanks chrowe! That did the trick.

Hi chrowe,

How exactly you do that?

We did this by using the Feeds Tamper trim option to trim both leading and tailing spaces after the explode tamper.

I have feeds tamper to explode a list of taxonomy terms. After exploding them I don't have a string any longer, but an array, so if I add a trim filter after the explode one, I get the following error:

Warning: trim() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in feeds_tamper_trim_callback() (line 38 of /mysite/sites/all/modules/feeds_tamper/plugins/trim.inc).

How can you trim the individual taxonomy terms after exploding them?

Thanks a lot
Andrés

Hi amacias,

I ran into this same issue and found a workaround. I was using Feeds Tamper 7.x-1.0-beta3+55-dev and I upgraded to 7.x-1.0-beta-5. The upgrade caused the same warning that you reported.

What I was doing:

1. Explode - the terms into the array
2. Trim - the extra whitespace

Workaround:

1. Find replace - find "; " & replace ";"
2. Explode - the terms

An example of the terms I'm importing is; "Term 1; Term 2; Term 3". What Drupal likes, is "Term 1;Term 2;Term 3" so duplicate terms aren't created (ex: counseling-therapy, counseling-therapy-0 doesn't happen). If you are exploding something other than a ";", you could tweak this tamper to have it work for you.

I'm not sure why trim doesn't work anymore **shrug**

I've got a similar issue.

I'm extracting taxonomy term from a xml attribute.
ex :

So I have 1 tamper plugin which is :
- Find replace REGEX
- REGEX to find : /term="(.+?)"/
- Replacement pattern : $1
And a mapping "Search taxonomy terms by Term name" with "auto create" on.

So I had duplicate entries "myTerm1" in my vocabulary. :(

The trim workaround saves me :) ... even if there is no reason I should use it.

thanks folks :D

Feeds : 7.x-2.0-alpha8
Feeds Tamper : 7.x-1.0-beta5
Feeds XPath Parser : 7.x-1.0-beta4

As an FYI, it appears that a taxonomy term that does not already exist in the Drupal installation will not be imported by Feeds Tamper. Took a lot of experimentation for me to figure out the cause of an import error, leaving a note to help others.

Whether a tag is created on import is a Feeds setting. It has nothing to do with Feeds Tamper.

Thank you for the pointer, twistor.
The Feeds setting is in the 'Node Processor' 'mapping' display; in the Tags field, click the cog button in the 'target configuration' column, and check the 'Auto create' box to enable nodes to be created.

its working while removing space after comma. From ", " to "," in CSV file. after changing there were no duplicates.