By clarknova on

Hi guys, this must have been answered before, but here I go anyway: is htere a way of associting a type to a particular taxonomy term, like I want all blog posts to be associated with the term "Weblogs" so I can have a centralized page for all blogs. I'm using the taxonomy and taxonomy menu modules.

Thanks a lot.

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capmex commented

Blogs on drupal work in the way you described, they have a centralized page for showing all blog posts generally called 'blogs'.

Regarding your question about taxonomy: content types can only be associated with vocabularies and not with single terms under a certain vocabulary. You can create a new vocabulary and associate the blog type to it, then you could create a term called 'Weblogs' under that vocabulary and it should work like you want.

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jraper@groups.drupal.org commented

Sorry if this seems obvious, but would this "autotag" each blog as "Weblogs" or would the author still have to manually enter the "Weblogs" tag as he created each node? It seems like the original question implied the former.

[capmex: Please do correct me if that was not your intent]

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clarknova commented

The goal would be having my users tag as less as possible as a means to ensure every post will land on the intended category, now I see that I will have to use a vocabulary for each category I want to create, as opossed to only one vocabulary(navegation) and multiple terms.

Now, how do I convert the terms of my already created vocabulary into multiple vocabularies?

Cheers.

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capmex commented

Blog posts can be autotagged (belong to a certain term) as "Weblogs" if this term is the only one under that vocabulary and if under the options for the vocabulary 'Required' is checked.

Using the 'Free tagging' option for the vocabulary overrides the above behavior and you are forced to type the tag or list of tags your post belongs to.
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clarknova commented

I would have to create a vocabulary with only one term?

I can do this but it seems kind of forced, are you sure there is no way of assignign a content type to a particular term in the Taxonomy?

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capmex commented

You can also try http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_access (taxonomy access control contributed module) to set to specific roles permission for adding content only to certain terms. In this case you could set a vocabulary for all your terms and grant access to certain terms based on roles, for example: a 'blogger' role can be restricted to only create content on the term 'Weblogs', in order for this to work the role has to have permission only to add blog posts and not other content types.

All solutions I can think are workarounds and have their own quirks.

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