By Suitov on

Hello. I'll briefly describe what I'd like to do, then I'd appreciate if anyone can tell me if it's possible, and if this is the best way to go about it.

My installation of Drupal will be used to run a roleplay site. Some nodes will be roleplay posts such as "Joe went to Fredtown and saw some trees". Other nodes will be background, such as a profile of Joe.

I want my users to tag the roleplay-nodes to identify the characters who are in them. To help with this, I want Drupal to populate a "Characters" taxonomy from all background-nodes about characters, and offer these to the user as tags.

I know they could tag their roleplay posts with free-text entry, but (a) I'd rather not allow free-text, and (b) I'd like the "Joe" tag to link automatically to the background-node for Joe, no further action required on the user's part.

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qjensen commented

I understand why you might look at taxonomy for this, but would a CCK node reference field work? I assume you have a CCK type for characters, so you could add a node reference field to the roleplay post that would contain a link to the character node. You may have other use cases that require the use of a taxonomy, so if I am missing something, just let me know.

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Suitov commented

Thanks for the pointer - I'm very new to Drupal, so if this sounds to you like something more suitable to attempt with CCK, I'll try that.

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Suitov commented

Thanks! Now I've found the appropriate settings, CCK fields are obviously the way to go.