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Time Narration
00:01 Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on Taxonomy
00:05 In this tutorial, we will learn about
  • Taxonomy and Adding a Taxonomy
00:11 To record this tutorial, I am using
  • Ubuntu Linux Operating System
  • Drupal 8 and Firefox Web browser

You can use any web browser as per your choice.

00:23 Let us open our website which we created earlier.
00:27 Now that we have all of our Content types and fields built, we need to add categorization.And that’s where Taxonomy comes in.
00:37 Taxonomy is nothing else but Categories.
00:41 Going back to our IMDB example, recall that we had a Movie Genre field on the IMDB site.
00:50 Well, here’s the way it works in Drupal’s taxonomy.
00:54 Movie genre would be a vocabulary and that’s the term for the main category.
01:00 And in that vocabulary, we have Terms.
01:04 So, on the screen, we have ACTION, ADVENTURE, COMEDY, DRAMA and ROMANCE.
01:11 And then under COMEDY, we have ROMANTIC, ACTION, SLAPSTICK and SCREWBALL.
01:18 We can have unlimited nested categories or terms in a Drupal vocabulary or taxonomy.
01:24 Now, here’s one thing that is really important.
01:28 One area that many sites fail on is -
  • using the built-in tagging widget or the tag vocabulary to categorize their content.
01:37 While it is great to be able to add categories on the fly, it has some inherent problems.
01:44 What happens if someone types a typo?
01:47 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.
01:56 So suddenly, we will have 2 categories and the content is no longer connected.
02:02 That’s why we always recommend a closed taxonomy, like the one on the screen.
02:08 It’s easy to set up, and we are going to do that later on in this series.
02:12 For now understand that, Taxonomy can be used in so many ways.
02:17 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.
02:28 Well, let’s dive into taxonomy now.
02:32 We will set up a taxonomy for our Events Content type.
02:35 Click on Structure, scroll down and click on Taxonomy.
02:41 As you probably remember, we have been setting up tags all along.
02:46 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.
02:56 So we will click on Add vocabulary.And let’s name this as Event Topics.
03:02 In the Description, we will type - This is where we track the topics for Drupal events.
03:09 Click Save.Now we can add terms to our vocabulary.

Click on Add a term.

03:16 On the screen you see a list of the terms that we are going to add –

Introduction to Drupal, Site Building,

03:24 Module Development,

Theming, and Performance.

03:28 Let’s add those – Introduction to Drupal and click Save.
03:34 and it brings us back to this Add screen again.
03:39 Now, I’ll type Site Building and click Save.
03:43 Module Development and click Save. Theming…..., I’m just pressing Enter and it automatically saves.
03:53 And then the last one is Performance, and click Save.
03:57 We can add complex vocabulary here, but we’ll just keep this simple for now.
04:03 Clicking on Taxonomy here, and listing the terms in the Event Topics.
04:09 We now have Introduction, Module Development, Performance, Site Building and Theming.
04:16 And they’re in alphabetical order.
04:19 But, I want to arrange them in the order of difficulty.
04:23 So I’m going to - move Module Development down,Site Building up,
04:27 * and I am going to put Theming after Site Building
  • and then Performance at the very end.
04:34 Just click and drag these.Always remember to save your changes.
04:39 Otherwise Drupal won’t remember them after you leave the screen.
04:44 So click Save.And there we have our terms in the order that we want.
04:50 We have added the taxonomy, but our Content type doesn’t know about this yet.
04:56 So let’s go and click on Structure, Content types.
05:00 And let’s manage our Fields and the Events Content type.Then click Add field.
05:06 Selecting a field type in this case is a Reference to the Taxonomy term in the vocabulary we just created.
05:14 So choose Taxonomy term and let’s name this Event Topics.Click Save and continue.
05:23 And now it’s going to ask us which Type of item to reference.
05:28 Since we have already chosen that, be careful here.We will change it to Unlimited because an event can have more than one topic.
05:37 Click Save field settings.
05:40 And down here, we need to make sure that we choose the correct reference type.
05:46 Let’s choose Event Topics.Here, this is going to allow us to Create references entities if they don’t already exist.
05:56 This is called Inline entity reference.Basically it means, if there was a topic that wasn’t in our listing, then any user can add it on the fly.
06:07 We don’t want anyone to do that, so we will leave that unchecked.
06:11 Click Save settings.
06:15 There is one more step before we add content.
06:18 We need to set up our URL patterns and we usually do this before we add content.
06:24 This ensures that the content we add has the correct human-friendly URL.
06:30 We’ll do that later on in this series.With this we come to the end of this tutorial.
06:36 Let us summarize.
06:39 In this tutorial we have learnt about
  • Taxonomy
  • Adding a Taxonomy
06:48 This video is Adapted from Acquia and OSTraining and revised by Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay.
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07:11 Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development and NVLI, Ministry of Culture Government of India.
07:23 This is Varsha Venkatesh signing off.Thanks for joining.

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