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Taxonomy

Learning Objectives

• Taxonomy and
• Adding a Taxonomy

System requirement

• Ubuntu Linux Operating System
• Drupal 8 and
• Firefox Web browser

You can use any web browser as per your choice.

And that’s where Taxonomy comes in.

Going back to our IMDB example, recall that we had a Movie Genre field on the IMDB site.

Movie genre would be a vocabulary and that’s the term for the main category.

So, on the screen, we have ACTION, ADVENTURE, COMEDY, DRAMA and ROMANCE.

And then under COMEDY, we have ROMANTIC, ACTION, SLAPSTICK and SCREWBALL.

One area that many sites fail on is -

• using the built-in tagging widget or the tag vocabulary
• to categorize their content.

So energy – e n e r g y isn’t the same as e n r e g y and Drupal doesn’t know the difference.

It’s easy to set up, and we are going to do that later on in this series.

We’ve already seen how it creates lists of content.

But we can also use taxonomy to filter and sort all kinds of Views, if we use it correctly.

But as I mentioned earlier, we want to have a closed taxonomy -

• something that we can control,
• and not something that people can easily add terms to.

And let’s name this as Event Topics.

In the Description, we will type - This is where we track the topics for Drupal events.

Now we can add terms to our vocabulary.

Click on Add a term.

On the screen you see a list of the terms that we are going to add –

Introduction to Drupal,

Site Building,

Module Development,

Theming, and

Performance.

Module Development and click Save.

Theming…..., I’m just pressing Enter and it automatically saves.

We now have Introduction, Module Development, Performance, Site Building and Theming.

And they’re in alphabetical order.

So I’m going to -

• move Module Development down,
• Site Building up,
• and I am going to put Theming after Site Building
• and then Performance at the very end.

Always remember to save your changes.

Otherwise Drupal won’t remember them after you leave the screen.

And there we have our terms in the order that we want.

And let’s manage our Fields and the Events Content type.

Then click Add field.

Click Save and continue.

Since we have already chosen that, be careful here.

We will change it to Unlimited because an event can have more than one topic.

Let’s choose Event Topics.

Here, this is going to allow us to Create references entities if they don’t already exist.

Basically it means, if there was a topic that wasn’t in our listing, then any user can add it on the fly.

We need to set up our URL patterns and we usually do this before we add content.

This ensures that the content we add has the correct human-friendly URL.

With this we come to the end of this tutorial.

Summary

In this tutorial we have learnt about

• Taxonomy
• Adding a Taxonomy

Acknowledgement

• adapted from Acquia and OSTraining
• and revised by Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay.

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Acknowledgement

• NMEICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development and
• NVLI, Ministry of Culture

Government of India.

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