On 7/31/07, paola.dimaio@gmail.com paola.dimaio@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 -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]