I am building a new website consisting of a wide selection of science publications. Common for all the data is the basis of a branched taxonomy three (ie. many levels).
The taxonomy tree describes related term's interrelationship with each other. The goal with this setup is to have a website that does not rely on a static menu structure but on filtered taxonomy trees. This way documents appear wherever their tags take them.
In this process I have several challenges - but one of the central issues is this:
A taxonomy tree build on relationship:
food
-fruit
-- apple
-- grapefruit
-- orange
-- pear
- vegetable
-- tomato
-- potato
-- carrot
I then have several tagged documents. However they are only tagged with the final tags (e.g. apple, orange, potato, carrot), and thus not the parent tags.
The challenge for me is this: how do I make my view (filtering on e.g. "fruit") show apples, grapefruits, oranges and pears? The example is with three levels, but my current taxonomy trees have up to five levels.
Regards,
Svend