[support] hierarchy constraint

[Cog Rusty]

On 7/31/07, paola.dimaio at gmail.com <paola.dimaio at gmail.com> wrote:
> We are implementing categories/taxonomy
>
> Have created a few parent cats with relevant children and subchildren
> Still working with the content architecture, and experimenting a
> little on how to best balance a simple site structure and the free
> tagging etc.
>
> I have noticed that we can now post stories directly to the child
> category, without any association being made to the parent category.
>
> assume
>
> INTERNET
> -----------CONTENT MANAGEMENT
> -------------------------------------OPEN SOURCE CMS
> --------------------------------------------------------------DRUPAL
>
> I can post a story directly to the 'drupal category' but it will not
> appear (made visible, displayed, associated with)  the parent
> categories.


The current design allows you to display the nodes of the child
categories in their parent category's listing if you want. In your
example.

-- INTERNET (term ID 1)
---- CONTENT MANAGEMENT (term ID 2)
------ OPEN SOURCE CMS (term ID 3)
-------- DRUPAL (term ID 4)

The page "/taxonomy/term/4" displays only nodes of category 4 (DRUPAL)
The page "/taxonomy/term/1/all" displays all nodes of category 1 and
all its children.

If you want all your category listings to include the children and you
don't want to add "/all" every time, there is a module for that:
http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_forceall


> I think this is wrong. I would like to suggest an (optional) feature
> to provide a constraint to 'enforce the hiearchy' - in the
> categories/taxonomy module, so that selecting a child category will
> automatically result in all the parents to inherit the item by default
>
> While an experienced 'editor' may be trained to carry out this manualy
> as a routine opration wen posting  (tick also the parents), it would
> be desireable to be able to automat that
>
> Before I make this a feature request, I'd like to know what people think
> thanks
> PDM
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