Lost channels taxonomy after experimenting with another taxonomy category
Fri, 29/01/2010 - 12:05
I added a "Tags" taxonomy category to the Story content type while experimenting with the Relevant Content module. But I noticed that doing so made my Channels field disappear from the "Edit story" and "Create story" pages. So I deleted the "Tags" taxonomy category ... but now I can't get the Channels field to appear in the "Edit story" and "Create story" pages, even if I go to Channels in Taxonomy and unassign and reassign the Channels category to the Story content type.
"Manage fields" for the Story content type shows a Taxonomy module field ... but the Channel field still won't show up in the "Edit story" and "Create story" pages.
Help! I want my Channels back!
Tue, 02/02/2010 - 13:34
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Showing channel in breadcrumb for stories of multiple channels
> but if the story is assigned to multiple channels, then using Taxonomy Breadcrumb resulted in the wrong channel being chosen for the breadcrumb trail.
I think this is your upstream problem. As in, this is the one causing you to look at solutions which themselves also pose problems. The question here is one of design, not implementation.
If you have a story that belongs to multiple channels, showing the taxonomy / channel in a breadcrumb is ambiguous. It will always sometimes show the wrong term because either choice is equally valid (in the point of view of the source code).
The only way you can make this deterministic is maybe to assign weights to channels, and if a story belongs to more than one channel, the 'heavier' channel 'wins'.
Well, I have figured out that something I have installed in the last few days is causing a problem with my taxonomy. I cannot have a taxonomy field (such as Channels) and a Content Taxonomy field (such as a custom field i created) in the Story content type at the same time. If I create a Content Taxonomy field, my Channels field disappears; if I delete the Content Taxonomy field, my Channels reappear.
The problem is that I had created the Content Taxonomy field in order to use Custom Breadcrumbs.
I want a breadcrumb trail that matches one of the Channels that the Story is assigned to -- but if the story is assigned to multiple channels, then using Taxonomy Breadcrumb resulted in the wrong channel being chosen for the breadcrumb trail. So I was using a Content Taxonomy field to choose one term from the Channels taxonomy to be the breadcrumb term for the Custom Breadcrumb module.
Now, I either need to figure out which module is causing me not to be able to have a Content Taxonomy field -- or I need to find another breadcrumb solution. Either way, I have a lot of problem-solving ahead of me!
Katrina
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