Hi,
I am currently playing around with taxonomy, taxonomy_menu and the views modules, and I have heard a lot about the category module. I tried it out earlier, but found it difficult to get my head round, until I read in the help files that category_menu outputs static menu items, which explains all of the problems I was having.
The automatic generation and updating of menus offered by taxonomy_menu is great, but I desperately want to create a hierarchy of vocabularies, so free tagging can be assigned to vocabularies which are themselves children of parent vocabularies.
Currently, I don't think it's possible to free tag terms in taxonomy, which creates a problem. I *think* this is easily accomplished using the category module by creating containers where I currently wish vocabularies to exist (please correct me if I'm wrong).
In case the above doesn't make sense, as an example I would like:
Your Area
- by region
-- north west
-- south east etc.
- by name
.. with content to be tagged as it is created (if I was creating Liverpool, I would tag it Liverpool and put it under north west and by name) and inserted into the structure in the appropriate place.
I really need the menus to be updated automatically though and I don't know either:
- how to make menus dynamic with the category module.
- how to get around the free tagging issue with taxonomy
I hope there's something I'm overlooking with the category module, because it seems so powerful, but I really need dynamic menus.