Taxonomy Manager

The last month I've been working on some new features for the Taxonomy Manager. This new major release includes new features like an optional double tree interface (see screenshot), where you can display two trees side by side and perform operations between the two trees. The double tree interface supports operations to move terms in hierarchies, to add new translations and to switch terms between different vocabularies.

Today, the SoC program official ends. I'm glad that I was able to make the first release of my project today. Last week has been an intensive week of testing (thanks to all my tester) and the weekend has even been more intensive with bug fixing and today I finally had time to write some documentation. So I think, most things are done.

We are getting closer to the official end of SoC, so it's time now to stop implementing new features and to to do a lot of testing and to fix bugs, so that I'm hopefully able to release a first version of the Taxonomy Manager by end of SoC.

The last 2 weeks I spent a lot of time in adding paging mechanism to the tree structure, in separating the tree structure as a own form element type and in adding of a form for editing data from a specific term.

Again a short summary, what has been done the last week and what I've planed to do this week.

Progress last week:

Rework of weight management for terms

As announced in my last report, I did a total rework for the weight management for reordering terms. Initially, I planned to have weight select forms included in the tree structure. Soon, we saw, that this is not very nice.

This week I got some feedback for the first parts of the taxonomy manager. People provided me with additional ideas, that's always great. Again I thought about some points, like how to manage term weights or how to do merging.

After finishing my exams last week, I finally had much more time to work on my project this week as the last time.

So I started with coding. The first task was to write a simple jQuery script for a dynamic tree view (collapsible parents) for a vocabulary.

Short report about what's going on with the taxonomy manager. Last week my exams at university started (until end of June), so not much coding yet.

The first week of summer of code is nearly over. So it’s time for a short report what I’ve done so far with the “Taxonomy Manager”.

First of all, a short description of my project. At the moment, the Drupal’s taxonomy module provides only a simple administration page for adding / editing terms. When having a bigger amount of terms, it gets hard to manage the list of terms. My project will implement an additional powerful interface for managing longer lists of terms.

Short Project Description:
A new module should provide a powerful interface for Drupal’s core taxonomy module for managing terms.

Motivation:
The taxonomy module allows the categorization of content by assigning terms to a node. These terms are grouped in one vocabulary, where they can be structured optional in hierarchical order or related to each other. It depends on the type of vocabulary, whether it’s possible for users to add new terms or whether only administrators have this permission.