How to make a node appear across *all* Taxonomy terms?

Question

I am creating and classifying nodes by:

1. A main taxonomy
2. A secondary geographic location taxonomy

I created a View for the display of these nodes. It accepts a term ID from the main taxonomy via URL, and provides a Hierarchical Select "exposed filter" for further filtering by geography within the displayed nodes.

I notice that if a user does not select any location from the exposed filter, all nodes from across the world are displayed. But when I select USA, only USA nodes are displayed.

That is the desired behavior, however, I need to create some nodes that have "Worldwide" scope, and appear in the view even when the geographical filter is activated. It would be a great hassle to create nodes for each and every location.

I could hardcode this in some way: I even considered a separate taxonomy of worldwide nodes, and creating a block which is always displayed on top of the filtered results. But the problem with this is that the order of node-creation is also important, and my solution would appear disjointed.

Any ideas to nudge me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Assuming I understand you correctly... why don't you create a custom checkbox field "Worldwide?" for the node type? Then in any views you could insert an OR checking if the node has it set. Still, you would be able to group the results by another field, such as geographical region name.

This is where you get the dialog in Views3

Answer 2

We had a similar problem, we had to distribute nodes by brand > department and country. Sometimes we would need to broadcast to all...

The solution for us was changing the taxonomy to a cck "Content Taxonomy Fields" and using the tree widget, that way we could apply a node to all (or worldwide). Then we added some custom js which allowed check all. (after all world wide rather than being a single selection is actually all of the countries in the taxonomy).