This could be useful to specify field value that is same across all imported items. For example if I import a BBC feed, and I have a Provider vocabulary setup for the content, I Could put BBC in there :)

This could open up transformations like Yahoo Pipes, so that operations could be done by the mapper on items :)

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bejam CreditAttribution: bejam commented

Yeah this would be really useful.... I'm having problems with Yahoo Pipes which will only output standard RSS fields and so I can't add a taxonomy tag that is passed through. As a second best I could add the tag on a feed basis manually at the feed mapping stage if this feature were available.

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Talking about Yahoo Pipes I am pretty much unable to use it. Most of the time I Am getting "Oops, server error. Unable to save data" or "Unable to retrieve data". So I pretty much gave up on it.

Taking this further, if one could specify not just a manual text field for a value, but perhaps a field with php enabled operations that could alter some of the imported fileds would be fantastic.

Now this is pretty much possible currently too by writing your own mapper, but if one could do it on the Drupal mapper interface, that would be even sweeter :) Storing each field mapping php code via Drupal db.

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tagawa CreditAttribution: tagawa commented

This feature is exactly what I'm looking for too. I was browsing this page:
http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/jan/24/build-your-own-mapper-fe...
and thinking I could build my own mapper, but if some sort of static mapping addition is already in the pipeline...

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ball.in.th CreditAttribution: ball.in.th commented

Subscribing. This feature will be really useful for me as well.

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ball.in.th CreditAttribution: ball.in.th commented

I just realize that there's FeedAPI Inherit which passes on taxonomy and organic group information from feed to feed items. So if you're looking for a way to manually specify taxonomy terms or organic groups, just put it in the feed and the items will inherit them. This must be enabled first in admin/content/node-type/feed.

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canesWin CreditAttribution: canesWin commented

Subscribing, this feature NEEDS to be included. It would be a simple code change to accept a static value rather than a dynamic feed element value.

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canesWin CreditAttribution: canesWin commented

Imagine being able to automatically set published state. That would be another great use for a static field mapping

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mickfuzz CreditAttribution: mickfuzz commented

Subscribing - this would be great for feeds with poor tagging but which are geo specific or subject specific.

I'm not sure but I think ekes did this on a website i used.
Items which were entered into the Free tags part of the Feed node, were added to the Free tags of each node item created from that feed.

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glenshewchuck CreditAttribution: glenshewchuck commented

Sort of along the lines as mickfuzz in #8. I had an issue where I was creating event nodes from many different feeds and wanted to differentiate each node from which feed it was created. I enabled the FeedAPI Inherit. Created a new vocabulary and applied that to the feed type and also the node type that was being created. Then every node that was created by that feed node had that feed node's taxonomy term.