I have setup an aggregating site that uses two vocabs

Vocab 1 is associated with content type news feed, and vobcab 2 is associated with content type news feed item.

I am using the autotaxonomy features with the vocab 2 associated with news feed items

I am using a highly controlled vocab in Vocab 1, vocab 2 is generated by the news feeds.

I have several terms that are the same in each vocab. When I aggregate a feed associated with a specific term "news" in vocab 1, I get several feed news items that should be associated with "news" in vocab 2.

When I look at the feed's item node, "news" is not selected for feed item categories. when I select it and resubmit the node, the news feed item is nolonger associated with the 'news' term in vocab 1 and is correctly associated with vocab 2 instance of the term.

When I change the name of the news term in vocab 1 to something else, the news feed items associates with the correct term in the correct vocab.

Could this bug be because I am using two vocabs with the same term and autotaxonomy?

Any ideas ... help..

Thanks

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redraven’s picture

redraven CreditAttribution: redraven commented

After further investigation it seems that this problem was associated with that specific instance of the term, i deleted it, created a new one with the same name and was not able to replicate the problem.

I initially had one vocab, then created two, and am thinking it was some weird behaviour in the taxonomy funcaitonality, anyways it seems to work fine now

Thanks again for such a useful module.

dkruglyak’s picture

dkruglyak CreditAttribution: dkruglyak commented
Category: bug » feature
Priority: Critical » Normal

We ran into what appears to be a limitation of this module while developing a site that is aggregating a very large number of feeds.

Auto-taxonomy module seems to be dumping all retrieved terms into a single vocabulary. This is fine for one or two feeds, but with many feeds the vocabulary is guaranteed to become a confusing junkyard real quick.

Our suggestion would be to configure which vocabulary AND parent term to use at the feed level, unless there are any better ideas.

redraven’s picture

redraven CreditAttribution: redraven commented

My plan to solve the problem you describe above was to use the related terms functionality of taxonomies.

I went through my vocab and related specific terms in my taxonomy, lets say 'broadband' and 'broadband policy' which had been harvested using autotaxonomy.

However, I have hit a bit of a stumbling block on this plan, which is how do I display related terms. They don't appear in the category tagging for each node. Its wonderful that drupal has this ability, but it appears not to be implemented. Any ideas?

Are there php variables to recall related terms in a theme template? (phptemplate ideally or xtemplate)

Thanks