Hierachical Location Fields

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spessex's picture

Hi

I'm new to Drupal and have been pulling my hair out now for quite a few days now trying to configure something that I would have imagined to be a very basic requirement.

All I need to figure out is how to create some kind of hierarchical field select system for locations in this instance. For example I have UK Counties (taxonomy), I would then like for arguments sake to select West Midlands and then a second field should dynamically show all the towns in the West Midland's area to enable the user to select one.

For note I have tried the 'Location Module' which doesn't cut the mustard at all and then I found the 'Hierarchical Select Module which appeared to be my holy grail until I discovered (unless I'm doing something wrong) that this part of the requirement only work on D6!

Any ones help or wisdom would be greatly appreciated as most of my websites rely on accurate location data, so they need to select the correct county followed by the correct town within that county.

Thank you

One tired and fed-up Drupal beginner ;-)

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Hierachical Location Fields

clarkac's picture

Do you really need to be using D7? If not I'd suggest going back to D6...

I am still using D6. I don't

cithukyaw's picture

I am still using D6.
I don't recommend to use D7 for the time being because most of the modules are not available for D7 yet.

With Regards,
Sithu

Thanks Sithu. I have been

spessex's picture

Thanks Sithu. I have been wondering whether I should just revert back to 6 as I keep getting the same issue with the most of the modules I'm attempting to use.

Drupal 7

macjules's picture

Nothing wrong with using D7 at all. You need to read a bit more about the taxonomy parent/child system. Try looking at http://drupal.org/node/116632#comment-198127 for a starter. Hope you don't give up - Drupal only gets easier!

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll

spessex's picture

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll take a look now.

I finally managed to get this

spessex's picture

I finally managed to get this to work in D7 with Hierarchical Select after applying a couple of the suggested patches in HS queue. My only complaint would be that there is a very long time delay having made the first selection and waiting for the second selection to appear (perhaps 15 secs).

Thanks to macjules as getting the taxonomy rights certainly helped!

United Kingdom

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