drupal 4.3.2, RH 7.x

Within my vocabulary I have a term which has the id of 9. I want to show anything associated with this term and it's child terms

---- Current BOD Book (term id 9)
------ section 1 (term id 10)
------ section 2 (term id 11)
------ section 3 (term id 13)
------ section 4 (term id 14)
------ section 4 (term id 12)
etc. to section 20

[ordering of id's is nonsequential because of adding and editing]

I have each section related to all other sections and to the parent term.

Sections need to be expandable and I want the listing to sort by section using the weight option.

How can I show everything (or just files) that are within term id 9 and have them listed by weight? So far they seem to list only by most recent.

I've tried:

?q=taxonomy/page/or/9 - shows a blank...

?q=taxonomy/page/or/10,11 - shows 10,11

?q=taxonomy/page/or/10,11,13 - show 11, 13, but not 10

This doesn't make sense. I really don't want to have to type in each section, I would think with the power of the taxonomy this should be fairly easy.

Maybe like so many other things this requires another module to make sense? I'd like to get it clear without module layering if possible.

Comments

gatezone’s picture

So I see another thread started about multiple term id's not working. What is the deal?

Can you display child terms by using the parent term id? If not what's the point?

Does the patch in the other thread relate to this or to one of the multitudes of versions that are not production releases.

Man... talk about user hell. People recommend using the "head" version if they want to have certain basic functionality but does this make sense?

I know I must be speaking martian in this community cuz if I depended on the responses here or the search engine I'd be pulling the trigger or the plug. I consistently see high numbers of visitors and extremely low number of users.

As someone who has to evaluate and review this type of software from a support perspective this is not a good sign especially when combined with other indicators one of which is it doesn't seem like the support or documentation can keep up with the 'development' process. Don't tell me to help because documenting a open source project where the developers response (other than Gordon] is so low to users that it is impossible to improve documentation. Then there's the list of sites using Drupal... not confidence inspiring, even Gordon's site was down when I looked at it.

matt westgate’s picture

I'm pretty sure you have to type in every term id that you want to display. It would be cool if there was an 'inherit' option you could pass along, but I think the default behavior makes sense.

gatezone’s picture

I've installed taxonomy_menu.module which has brought some common sensical order to taxonomy. If a newbie is reading this, the point is that the built-in taxonomy has lots of potential but much of it can't be easily realized without additional modules.

There are a number of display behaviors when using the term id that are challenging to get a grip on. Frankly I'm not sure it's worth the effort given the results. I can dig out the taxonomy term id's and painstakingly type them in to create menu links, but my experience with this is that they do not work in an expected manner. Like the ordering of term id 'nodes' items in a list. Confounding when you see the weighted option and think it will make a difference. Also I would see some term id nodes disappear when I would add additional ids even though I was using an "or" statement.

I'm sure it is operator error, or a nice combo platter of operator and code eccentricities - the point for a newbie is use an add-on module if you want to really unleash the taxonomy features. At least that's what I'd say after about a month of playing around with it.

gatezone’s picture

http://www.domain.org/bod/taxonomy/page/or/13

The above url produces all of the below variations through multiple refreshes - I don't see any logic to the alternating displays when the screen is refreshed. The blank and the incorrect number of items really sucks:

1) a blank grey main page area
2) a listing of 2 items in one vocabulary term (there are actually 5)
3) a listing of 5 items in one (same vocabulary term) the correct number.

Any tips for why taxonomy terms seem to act so inconsistently? Yes they all have one tax term selected in a single vocabulary structure.

This is an essential element of a site - to be able to display items that are categorized by the same taxonomy term. Without consistency the system is challenging at best. And of course one of my bosses is going to give a presentation in two days.

Taxonomy keeps me 'dancing' with Drupal but just when I think it is behaving itself it does something bizarre. I just don't have these issues with other CMS - but they don't have the taxonomy either.