[support] Freetagging in Drupal 7 Taxonomies

[Earnie Boyd]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:59 AM, DTH <david at hartster.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm adding blog functionality to a D7 site. I'm using Taxonomy to add
> a list of checkboxes for authors to tag posts. However, people will
> always want to add extra tags. Rather than force people to edit
> vocabularies, are there any contributed modules that allow for people
> to choose "other" and then add extra terms on the node form? I don't
> want to use the autocomplete widget as (based on current usage), I'll
> know we end up with a ton of similar/mispelled tags, plus I want to
> force people to reuse existing tags/limit the tags they use.
>

The autocomplete widget is probably best for allowing reuse of exiting
tags.  You're always going to get misspelled tags, you even misspelled
misspelled in this post. ;p
The only way to really control that is by a rule to give you recent
added taxonomy so you can review it for correctness.

> I'm aware of Hierarchical Select, but that seems overly complicated
> for this purpose (and I'm somewhat reluctant to use an Alpha release
> of a module with 143 open bugs on a live site).

Probably.

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