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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Ok, well then the way you’ve asked the question belies that maybe you haven’t done due diligence in researching custom module development in drupal? I would
recommend starting with Drupal Pro Development or some such tome. It is always difficult to gage someone’s development experience from a mailing list, but the way you ask the question:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“How does drupal treat display fields differently than form fields”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">doesn’t seem like a relavent question to developing a custom module. Perhaps I’m in error here and I don’t understand the question you’re asking? As you know
you can load nodes and save nodes with the appropriate function calls. You can make custom forms that display lists of taxonomy terms in a drupal form. I guess you’re asking how to write a custom module? Or are you asking how get a list of taxonomy terms?
Or are you asking how to update a node programmatically? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If you have started development down this road and understand custom module development, perhaps you could post more specifics about the problems you’re having?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Miller<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 09, 2013 4:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> support@drupal.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [support] "Editable Fields"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">"David Metzler" <<a href="mailto:metzlerd@evergreen.edu">metzlerd@evergreen.edu</a>><br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:support@drupal.org">support@drupal.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:support@drupal.org">support@drupal.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Monday, December 9, 2013 10:20:08 AM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [support] "Editable Fields"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The only real way to do this is to write code.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Yes. I thought I indicated that I also believed that this is a coding exercise with my reference to "node_load()".
<strong><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That</span></u></strong> I will have to write code is undisputed;
<strong><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">what</span></u></strong> I will have to write is still very much an open question that begs clarification.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span 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:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/10861/taxonomy-bulk-edit-in-drupal-7">http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/10861/taxonomy-bulk-edit-in-drupal-7</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">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
<strong><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">set</span></u></strong> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks for the help,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Chris.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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