Posted by uNeedStuff on February 20, 2007 at 8:00pm
Taxonomy is the parent term for: Categories, Vocabulary, Terms, & Tags. Is there any other word we need to add?
That's all I got right now, can anyone else add something here?
Why is it a good thing? What does it allow you to do? Why do you want to use it? In what ways do you want to use it?
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Found another term:
Found another term: descriptors
Shari
I may be different,
may I never be indifferent.
Not sure if the following is
Not sure if the following is the type of information you are looking for, but, here goes.
There is also what is supposed to be something of a SUPER taxonomy contributed module. It is called "Category". In 5x, it behaves substantially differently from the Core "Taxonomy" module.
I'm VERY slow when it comes to grasping these concepts. If you are a little slow too, I'm not sure which way is the "best" way to learn taxonomy. As I understand it, "taxonomy" is the "science" of categorizing things. It appears to me that the standard Taxonomy module does a pretty straightforward job of this task. However, from what I have read thus far, "Category" is much more powerful. What confuses me is the addition of "container" and levels.
How would you describe that
How would you describe that module and what it does in simple terms?
Shari
I may be different,
may I never be indifferent.
Shari
I may be different,
may I never be indifferent.
I agree with Nancy and am
I agree with Nancy and am afraid I wasn't very clear in my intent in mentioning the "Category" module.
My intent was to make sure us newbies don't get confused between the core Taxonomy module and the CONTRIBUTED Category module.
For beginners, I would strongly suggest sticking to the Taxonomy module even though the contributed Category module is supposed to be more powerful.
Defining the contributed Category module is beyond my capabilities.
Oh!! yes! thanks for that. I
Oh!! yes! thanks for that. I think that naming the modules sometimes isn't to intuitive :o\
Shari
Shari
I may be different,
may I never be indifferent.
Are We Begginners?
If we are trying to reach the beginning Drupaller, do we need to be confusing them even more by talking a lot about a module that does similar things (albeit in a different way) and has an even more confusing name to start with?
Most beginners have enough trouble getting their arms around standard taxonomies. Let's start there, please.
Nancy W.
now running 4 sites on Drupal so far
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)
Nancy Dru
Just as long
Just as long as we don't start adding to the confusion level. To me, "tags" are the main part of HTML coding, "descriptors" are the parts that make the tags do something. IMHO, they are not really part of Taxonomy. I took a shot at describing a taxonomy in that other post as well.
Nancy W.
now running 4 sites on Drupal so far
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)
Nancy Dru
breadcrumb definition
I don't know if this officially belongs under taxonomy, but "breadcrumb". It took me a couple of weeks of poking around at things to figure out what a breadcrumb was, including running searches on the term. It's used all over the place but it's never defined.
Great pubs! this is exactly
Great pubs! this is exactly what we need to know so we can make sure we cover it. How would you explain breadcrumb?
Shari
I may be different,
may I never be indifferent.
Shari
I may be different,
may I never be indifferent.
In the other post
I put my description in your other post.
Nancy W.
now running 4 sites on Drupal so far
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)
Nancy Dru
Dear Shari, allow me to say
Dear Shari, allow me to say that till now when I have to do with the Taxonomy.module, and on my Test HP i try to build a new Vocabolary, I did not discover and fully understand (maybe I did not search enough) what happen when I make a Term and then I select the advanced options and select a Related Terms.
I'm sure that somewhere exist a Documentation-page where this is explained. But again I did not search on that
really.
Cheers
Wolfflow