<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"David Metzler" <metzlerd@evergreen.edu><br><b>To: </b>"support@drupal.org" <support@drupal.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, December 9, 2013 10:20:08 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [support] "Editable Fields"<br><div><br></div><style><!--
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">The only real way to do this is to write code. </span></p></div></blockquote><div>Yes. I thought I indicated that I also believed that this is a coding exercise with my reference to "node_load()". <u><strong>That</strong></u> I will have to write code is undisputed; <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>what</strong></span> I will have to write is still very much an open question that begs clarification.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">There may be some capability for this in Views Bulk Operations project. There’s a relavent stack exchange answer: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/10861/taxonomy-bulk-edit-in-drupal-7" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/10861/taxonomy-bulk-edit-in-drupal-7"><a>http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/10861/taxonomy-bulk-edit-in-drupal-7</a></a></p></div></blockquote><div>I've been to VBO and it doesn't seem to do what I need. It seems to be a two step process -- select the rows of interest, then <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>set</strong></span> the taxonomy; there isn't apparently a more gentle modification. I also looked at Editable Views and found that I couldn't even get an editable view, which is either my incompetence or misfortune to try to use a field that is not supported.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>So the core issue is how Drupal treats display fields differently from "form" fields, and where I can find some explanations. We know that I could put this taxonomy field on a content-type and I would get editable values on page creation and page modification, so what calls are made to accomplish this, and where can I read about it?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the help,</div><div><br></div><div>Chris.</div></div></body></html>