How do I enable this functionality

By God Of Atheism on 1 Mar 2015 at 05:09 UTC

I'm going to make a website having among others an archive for documents.
People will upload a scanned document and assign certain properties to them. I was thinking of starting with some minimal lists for each of the properties including a blank option. If someone chooses the blank option, he can freely type. The text typed will then be added to the list of that property. When someone after that uploads a document, the newly added value is then included as an option, and there is also still retained the blank option. How do I do that in Drupal? Outside of the framework, using php or even just plain sql stored procedures this is trivial, but how do I make this work properly with the framework?

Comments

Content types with fields.

Jaypan commented 1 March 2015 at 05:19

Content types with fields. All part of core.

Your properties field sounds

nevets commented 1 March 2015 at 06:05

Your properties field sounds a lot like a Drupal vocabulary

So, if I get it right, to

God Of Atheism commented 2 March 2015 at 19:44

So, if I get it right, to implement this functionality I need to write a custom module implementing the necessary hooks?

I would use a vocabulary and

nevets commented 2 March 2015 at 19:56

I would use a vocabulary and a term reference field.

Thanks. I tried that and for

God Of Atheism commented 3 March 2015 at 04:55

Thanks. I tried that and for some of the fields I need that seems fine. However, how do I get the user to both get the list of already existing terms in the vocabulary and have the option to instead add a new term when adding content (without leaving the add content page)? When I choose as widget check boxes/radio buttins or select list I have the former, when I choose autocomplete terms widget (tagging) I get the latter.