[drupal-support] Article Content and taxonomies

[Christopher Taylor]

Hi,
Can you copy a taxonomy and all of the sub-terms to a new one and give it a
new name?
This would also solve the issue of building a template and duplicating it
for each community and networking group.
I don't know if Flexinode will work because the content will be created by
Citizens and Members.
THey way not pay attention to volume and issue number per say.

Regards

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Cohill" <cohill at designnine.com>
To: <drupal-support at drupal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [drupal-support] Article Content and taxonomies


>
> On Jun 8, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Christopher Taylor wrote:
> >
> > 3. Taxonomy, Issue
> > Term:
> > Volume 1, Issue 1, Beginning 06-02-2005
> > Term: Volume 2, Issue 2, Beginning 06-06-2005
> >
>
> putting structured information like this into a taxonomy is not always
> the most efficient approach.  One problem is that the taxonomy will
> grow without limit.
>
> There is also an interface design issue.  People do very poorly
> navigating and use long lists of items.  While there are occasionally
> good reasons to create long taxonomy sets,  it is something I usually
> try to avoid.
>
> Since you do have well-structured information, another approach would
> be to use flexinode and create a new node type with several data
> fields, including a Volume data field (for the Volume number), Issue
> data field, date data field, and so on.  You would, of course, also
> create a text area field that will hold the article.
>
> For each node, you would also classify it according to one or more of
> the other taxonomies you have.
>
> Also keep in mind that Drupal's full text search capability is your
> friend.  People are very familiar with search engines like Google, and
> are relatively unfamiliar with searching by rigid classification
> schemes, in which you have to understand the classification scheme to
> make good use of it.
>
> If most people can find most things they will want to search for using
> full text search, that's probably good enough.
>
> Andrew
>
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