Drupal: make working with taxonomy easier (taxonomy helpers to assign, manage, import/export, access, ...)

Manage Taxonomy Trees

When working with taxonomy, especialy large vocabularies with deep hierarchies the standard taxonomy module isnt enough to manage your vocabularies. To maintain the vocabulary in drupals backend the most obvious choice is http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_manager

Some features:

• dynamic treeview
• mass deleting
• mass adding of new terms
• moving of terms in hierarchies
• merging of terms
• fast weight changing with up and down arrows (and AJAX saving)
• AJAX powered term editing form
• simple search interface
• CSV Export of terms
• i18n support for multilingual vocabularies (per language terms)
• Double Tree interface for moving terms in hierarchies, adding new translations and switching terms between different vocabularies

Assigning taxonomy to nodes

The core taxonomy module only gives you the choice between a select field and an autocomplete field. The choice to extend this here is the http://drupal.org/project/hierarchical_select , it allows you to select terms on nodes using a widget that selects the term by hierarchy level. So by selecting the a parent the next select field with only contain the children of the previously selected parent term. It also integrates with a large number of other modules.

Taxonomy permissions

http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_delegate lets you delegate other roles to administer certain vocabularies.

More than once the same vocabulary on your node

Ever wanted to add a taxonomy vocabulary more than once to a node under a different name. For eaxample you have a node you want to tag with a location vocabulary for places where the product is sold and use the same voc to indicate where the goods are produced. http://drupal.org/project/content_taxonomy solves this problem by using the taxonomy in a cck field, you can add multiple cck fields of the same vocabulary on your node.

Import/Export taxonomy terms

The most commonly used module to import export taxonomy on drupal sites is http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_csv . Like the name says it creates a csv of your taxonomy which you can import on an other site.

Taxonomy and Access

Taxonomy can help you manage access too. http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_access makes nodes accessible using their taxonomy.

Other

Taxonomy could be used to build a menu(http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_menu), breadcrumbs(http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_breadcrumb), trails, ...