Hi Lewis,

I've never used the Taxonomy Field module, but I have a thought. If you go to Manage Fields for your content type and flip to the Display Fields tab, is there an option there to display the terms with or without a link?

I've found that using taxonomy for things like this generally turns into a big pain. I'd lean towards using the Node Reference module instead. Go take a look at Rob Feature's Mustardseed Media Videocast on using Node Reference. He uses Page and Story nodes in his demonstration. In your case, his Page nodes would become Artist nodes and his Story nodes would be your Song nodes. You might want to consider using that approach instead.

I'm working on a similar site right now, and have the same setup with an Albums content type sandwiched between the Artist and Song types. The song nodes have 30 second clips available, and my plan is to make those Albums be Ubercart products when we're ready to add e-Commerce features to the site.

Micah

Thanks for your help
I was thinking to build like IMDB site. I have posted a new topic, but there's no one responded
should I use wiki to make user able to edited

if i put in node reference, I can only input the one which exist or being created, I can't create a new one if it's not exist

Hey andylou17,
I've found that using taxonomy for things like this generally turns into a big pain.

Just to further expand on Micah's explanation...Taxonomy works great for assigning categories to content. Let's consider a photo sharing site; in my picture there is a family on vacation standing in Lake Michigan at Warren Dunes in Sawyer, Michigan during Summer 2009. Everything in bold would be logical taxonomy terms as there will never be a single "Vacation" node which this content relates to. (Even though there may be a page displaying all of the "vacation" photos.) In the end, all of the photos are ultimately unrelated content, even though they may have been taken in the same place or time or are of the same subject. However, as soon as you create a blog post and want to display the pics from your trip to the beach, Node Reference makes more sense as you are now linking the blog node with the photo nodes.

In your case, Node Reference will work better as you wish to link two nodes (song and artist profile). Taxonomy would best categorize your content as rock, rap, R&B, classical, etc.

Hope this helps,

-NP

how about genre?
should i used genre in taxanomy?
how do you combine node reference with taxanomy?
for example I have genre: faith, and when I click the faith genre, it will list all the song that have the same genre: faith

Hey andylou17,
how do you combine node reference with taxanomy?
They are different ways of organizing your content.

- Node Reference is for creating a relationship between two nodes, in your case "song" and "artist".
- Taxonomy is for assigning categories to your content, such as "genre: faith".

I'd begin by creating your content types and populating with some content.
Then apply Node Reference.

Depending on the amount of content, that may be enough to navigate your site effectively. As your site grows, consider introducing taxonomy as another way of helping users locate related content.

-NP

I have created taxanomy term
but I can't click to show a list of the content under taxanomy term that I choose

What happens when you visit /taxonomy/term/1?

-NP

I used content taxonomy to let user able to key in the genre, but after generating it. It's not clickable
. It should be clickable and show the list of song of the particular genre

i found it out that I have to go to the content type and change the display to display as link
but should i configure the view so that when it click the genre, it will display all the song that related to that genre, how I can configure this?

This is my test site i am using it to learn
http://lewis.dev3.webenabled.net

Hey andylou17,

Views can display taxonomy terms, although Drupal can do that natively.

Enable Taxonomy: /admin/build/modules/list (you have done this)
Create your Vocabulary: /admin/content/taxonomy/add/vocabulary (you have done this)
Add terms: /admin/content/taxonomy/1/add/term (you have done this)
Select content types to categorize: /admin/content/taxonomy/edit/vocabulary/1 (I don't know if this is complete)
Tag your content: /at the node level (this has not been done)

Clicking on your your first tag will take you to /taxonomy/term/1 and display a list of nodes tagged with TID (Term ID) 1.

Does that help?

-NP

Select content types to categorize and Tag your content at the node level.
I don't really understand how to do it?
is it related to view?

andylou17, visit the paths I have provided. Views has nothing to do with this.

On /admin/content/taxonomy/edit/vocabulary/1 you will see checkboxes for each of your content types. Check the box(es) you want this taxonomy to apply to.

Then visit node/add/[content type] Under Vocabularies you will be able to apply your taxonomy terms to the node.

-NP

Thank you
yes I have created, but when i click it it 's not showing what I wanted
for example: I click on "modern" on genre and it suppose to show me all the song that related to "modern" genre, but it doesn't.
and should I used view on this part? and if so, how should I make the configuration?

and also another problem is that
I want my taxanomy term to be the term of name i am given not with number like term/23. how do u setup this?

andylou17,

You don't need Views for this. Views is a great module; I use it on every site. However, the problem lies in how your Taxonomy is set up...Views can't solve that.

Check out Organizing content with taxonomy and see if that helps. Please read all the way through it. If things still are not working, after you have read it all the way through, send me login info and I'll try and see what's going on.

As for your other problem, that can be solved with Pathauto. However, as with Views, it won't help you until you get the Taxonomy issue solved.

Blessings!

-NP

I got the link taxanomy work, but I have several taxanomy vocabulary, for example. I have Genre, Theme, Tempo, Recomended Key(s), Occasion. Those taxanomy values, come out, but it not under the catagory. for example Genre: Modern Contemporary and Tempo: Slow.

All mixed together in to one
How you can seperate that into category?

I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. I visited your site and it appears everything is working correctly. -NP

I am sorry it is not clear.
I have these tags vocabulary and term:
Genre: Modern, Contemporary
Occasion: Christmas
Tempo: Slow
Key(s): A, C

I want it to come out like that, but instead it give me these results:
Modern Contemporary Christmas Slow A C

I hope you can see what I mean
all the tag is mixed up

i found the solution
i used content taxanomy and link to taxanomy field and make the field linkable
and it's working now
Thank you for your help