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How to hide "Manage Fields" and "Manage Display" tabs

I'm making a website with Drupal 7, and I was looking through the permissions for Taxonomies. I wanted to give the website maintainers a central place to manage the vocabularies and add terms, sort ...
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When to use list(text) or taxonomy?

This may be a silly question, but I'm curious what the benefit is of using a list (text) multiple select field over a taxonomy term reference field. They both seem to fill roughly the same function of ...
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What are the advantages or disadvantages of using reference based modules instead of taxonomy module?

I wonder how to decide either to use core Taxonomy module or Entity Reference module? I didn't use Entity Reference module before but I've used the taxonomy module (and some related modules) on 10-15 ...
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Is it acceptable to change the vid column of a term programmatically in the database?

I need to move some terms from one vocabulary to another by retaining all their data: translations, aliases, and node references. Is it acceptable to change its vid column value directly in the ...
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'Add More' Taxonomy Term Widget

I'm trying to create a field widget that is similar to the normal term reference widget with one key difference. The user needs to be able to add multiple new taxonomy terms at the same time, this may ...
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What is the best tagging widget?

I was using the tagging module as my tagging widget until its status changed to Maintenance status: Unsupported. Now I'm looking for a replacement. After searching drupal.org I figured out there is ...
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How to programmatically modify fields of taxonomy terms?

In D7, how do I programmatically add/modify fields to taxonomy terms? They are clearly fieldable and in UI I can add and edit fields in them just like I do in nodes but it proved to be no easy task in ...
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How can I set the value of a taxonomy term reference to multiple terms using PHP?

This question describes how to set the value of a term reference field using PHP. But what do I do if I want to set the value of a term reference field in the user profile to multiple terms? I am ...
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Display taxonomy field in node display

I created a vocabulary where terms have an image as additional field. I want to show the image instead of the term name in the node page. How can I do this? In Drupal 6.x, I would load the term and ...
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Add field to vocabulary itself

I have a situation where I would like to add a field to a vocabulary itself. In other words, I need an editable field on the form that normally appears at /admin/structure/taxonomy/my_vocabulary/edit ...
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Is there a way to provide a Select All / Check All checkbox for a field that displays multiple checkboxes in Drupal 7?

Seems like there is no core config to setup a "Check All" checkbox unless I missed where it is. I'm creating a content type and have a taxonomy reference field and I have alot of terms, which means ...
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How to reference existing term if it exists or create new one if not exist via Inline Entity Form module?

I have a content type book and it has a taxonomy term reference field: author. I want to enter name and surname separately for each author on node add/edit page. Name and surname together will be the ...
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Selected Checkboxes (taxonomy) populate a new select list with values of selected boxes

* question answered: Help needed with hook_node_submit in custom module to save data * In Drupal 7, I have a custom content type. In this, there is a multi select term reference to select categories ...
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How to get the field settings in drupal 7

Here is the scenario. I have a taxonomy term reference field, which is referenced to a taxonomy vocabulary, for example it is associated with category vocabulary. Now I need to fetch the vid of the ...
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Should I change multiple text fields values via MySQL or is there any other preferable way?

The site has a content type and this content type has two fields: Text Field Term Reference Field There are thousands of nodes on this content type and I want to change some values (find/replace). ...
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Sort an entity query by a term reference field's term weight?

I've created an entity query to get an array of nodes based on a specific content type,see below: $query = new EntityFieldQuery(); $query->entityCondition('entity_type', 'node'); $query-&...
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Multiple values in creating a new field instance

This is the code I actually have: $instance = array( 'field_name' => FIELD_PROJECT_TAGS, 'entity_type' => 'node', 'label' => $vocabulary->name, 'bundle' => '...
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In Drupal 7, how do I display my taxonomy term fields while creating content when using a checkbox field?

I currently have the following below as a taxonomy reference field in one of my content types as a checkbox list widget during content creation. Currently its only showing the term name, but I want ...
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Retrieve taxonomy terms with EntityFieldQuery for a given parent term

I am retrieving a tid of a taxonomy term by using EntityFieldQuery. However, I need to cross-link the taxonomy_term_hierarchy table to list those terms which have a particular parent, but I am not ...
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Using CCK or Taxonomy with Custom Fields in Drupal 7

I am building a site that will contain data about athletes. I'm trying to decided wether to represent the athletes as CCK or Taxonomy Terms with custom fields. Athletes will contain information such ...
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How to modify term reference field in Drupal 7 custom content type?

I am using a term reference field in a content type in Drupal 7 which is a long hierarchical list of categories. In the input form, I want to show them as checkboxes and it gets displayed as a flat ...
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Limit options when creating content according to selected value

I have three content types, Events, Disciplines and Championships. An Event has entity references to Disciplines and Championships and Championship has an entity reference to Disciplines. ----- 1..n ...
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Entity Reference auto complete term creation on the fly?

There is a reason why I'm using an (autocomplete) Entity Reference field on my Content Type, instead of the Drupal's default term reference. It is linked to a taxonomy vocabulary and it's working just ...
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Taxonomy autocomplete widget with term depth settings [closed]

Is there a module (or custom code) to implement a widget for taxonomy autocomplete (>=1k terms) having term depth settings? Settings could be like to control term level variable depth, rules and ...
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form with taxonomy autocomplete widget throws error upon submit: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()

I have a custom form with this field in it: $form['first']['field_city'] = array( '#title' => t('Woonplaats'), '#type' => 'textfield', '#size' => 25, '#autocomplete_path' =&...
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Get taxonomy term field value?

I have some taxonomy terms that have an image field in them. I am trying to get the value of the image field in my templates. How can I do this? The field's name is field_header_image. I have this so ...
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How to display specific nodes in an EVA based on common taxonomy

I am trying to display nodes in an EVA, attached to a node type that shares taxonomy. The EVA passes the node ID to the EVA, so I have a contextual filter, but am having trouble figuring out how to ...
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How to create a rule to combine the terms of 2 fields to create a new term and store it in a 3rd field?

I have a content type that has 3 term reference fields: Field A (required), which contains a single tag. Field B (required), which contains a single tag. Field C (not required), which contains a ...
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How to change a field type from free-form text to a taxonomy term and keep its existing data?

I need to change one of the fields of a type of a node from a free-form text to be a taxonomy term, but the data already has about 250,000 records. How can I change this field type without losing ...
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Printing taxonomy terms as an un-ordered list

How to print taxonomy terms as an un-ordered list in page.tpl.php. Where i want to print a taxonomy term called "Article Category" and all its vocabularies one by one as a un-ordered list, so it can ...
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Create a field instance programmatically on a taxonomy vocabulary

I'm trying to create a module which creates a taxonomy vocabulary on installation of the module, and creates one text field on the taxonomy vocabulary/term. But I'm getting the following error when I ...
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Multilingual Taxonomy Views - Entity Translation

I am trying to create a multilingual taxonomy view using Entity translation. So far, I am stuck displaying an English view even when using a language code. I'm looking for the steps needed for this....
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How to fire multiple Rules Actions in a single rule?

I have a real estate website using the drealty module. In the real estate RETS feed, there is a numeric field called "Area". That numeric value refers to a specific area... for example, "22" might be "...
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An error which appears in Autocomplete taxonomy fields

Did someone ever note this annoying D7 taxonomy error? It jumps out when I seem to "pass" a certain amount of terms or characters. The error is as follows: An AJAX HTTP request terminated ...
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How to display term images instead of term names in the term selection process?

I have a content type with a term reference field (check boxes widget, vocabulary: Category) from which every user has to choose one term to be attached to his node. I have also added an image field ...
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Custom field: users organized into departments

I'm building an intranet corporate site, and need to have users linked to departments. The easy way I see this to be done is to create a taxonomy vocabulary with list of departments, and then add ...
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displaying fields of selected taxonomy term

I'm trying to create a minimalistic ordering system. No need for a full fledged solution like Commerce or UC in this case. Orders are represented as nodes (or maybe as custom entities using ECK, ...
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How to group taxonomy terms by their parent when using term reference field?

Is there a way to group taxonomy terms by their parent name(as fieldsets) for term reference field in content creation? For example: Cat#1 as parent and subCat#1, subCat#2 as children should be shown ...
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Taxonomy widget - select maximum level depth

I want to make a taxonomy field widget that allows me to select the maximum level depth of the taxonomy vocabulary. This widget should be used in node forms and the value (selected term) should be ...
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Best practice to have a 'category' fields where admin can choose wich voices the user can choose

I have a content type that needs a 'category' field; this can both be a taxonomy vocabulary or a text field (with the select widget), it doesn't really matter. (I won't have more then 5-6 voices at ...
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How to select an address field city from dropdown list?

I am using Address field module to populate address. A requirement needs to limit cities to a particular set, and also countries to particular set too. so I would like to present a set of cities in ...
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How to display taxonomy term reference field as a rendered entity?

I have taxonomy term reference field which are displayed as checkbox. Each taxonomy term has two fields 1. description and other 2. price I want the description and price field to be displayed ...
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How to change order of taxonomy terms related to specific node field?

As in question. I have multivalued taxonomy field. Is this possible to control terms weight, which are belongs to specific node field? As a term weight, I mean weight inside single node. It's just a ...
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Testing the value of Fields stored on Taxonomy Terms

I have a field (called Division) attached to a node. I want to print out a link (called Switch) on page.tpl.php that varies according to the value of this (node-based) field. I can successfully do ...
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How to output all taxonomy field values on a node in views?

How can I display all field values that are on the taxonomy terms that are applied to a given node? So say I have the following Vocab defined: Vocab name:Fruit Description:Fruit Categories w/ codes ...
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Is there any way to use comments for taxonomy pages?

I want to add a block like message board/chatbox in my taxonomy pages. Best and simple way to do it is comments. Is there any way to use comments for taxonomy pages?
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Non-autocomplete Widget for Term Reference Fields on Content Type

The available options at the moment are Autocomplete term widget (tagging), Select list and Check boxes/radio buttons, but I'd like to use a widget without autocomplete. Thanks in advance. EDIT: To ...
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Taxonomy based file path for imce

I've added the field "field_sdb_profile_basics_forv" to my (default) drupal user profile. Now I need the IMCE editor to detect and choose the file path, based on that field specifically. As pr ...
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Programmatically delete term from taxonomy term from all referring term reference fields

I would like to be able to programmatically delete a taxonomy term from all instances of term reference field that targets that terms vocabulary. My reason for this is that I believe I've encountered ...
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How to translate custom fields in taxonomy terms?

I would like to have custom fields with translatable content in taxonomy terms. Is this possible with existing modules? I know that this is possible if I use nodes instead of taxonomy terms: I can ...
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