Hello everybody, This is my first post here. English is not my mother tongue, so I apologise in advanced if I'm not clear...
I'm working on a cultural magazine which has many sections and categories. After 3 days of hard work I have finally moved from my old joomla portal all articles to my shiny brand new Drupal system which I'm very happy with.
The most difficult thing so far is organising all the contents: I've tried with the category module and simpleviews but still can't find the way to set a bulk operation to add vocabulary o categories on the fly to the uncategorised content.
Is there a way to do this without having to edit every article one by one? Any tutorial or post?
I haven't found any yet. It'd be great if I could customize a view in the admin page to be able to search articles by title and add them a vocabulary term to organise them properly.
It's quite a hard job doing this article by article.
Thank you very much in advanced. Regards.
Comments
taxonomy bulk update
Could you assign categories directly through an SQL command?
Open Calais?
Maybe, maybe Open Calais is an option for you: http://www.opencalais.com/
//Johan Falk, Sweden
Bulk operations
About Calais, there is a handbook page, and a couple of modules linked from there.
Other possibilities are some modules. See for example the forum thread How to bulk edit node categories and terms, and manage a large Drupal site, and the modules Views Bulk Operations (including an action to choose which terms should be added to the selected nodes), Taxonomy Multi Editor and Taxonomy Node Operations.
Try creating what you want in Drupal first
If you create what you want in Drupal (tables), populate by hand for a story or two, then you could use PHPmyadmin to upload the rest into the table(s) you have already created. A trick is to export the data even though it's only a couple of stories, and then copy that format for your upload. I migrated a huge number of stories that way. (This might also get you a step closer to figuring out how you can update your site automatically.)
If the stories do not have any kind of keywording or categories already associated with them, I know of no way to do that except manually.
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