Setting Up a Taxonomy

Goal¶

Create an Ingredients vocabulary and add it to the Recipe content type as a field that can contain an unlimited number of values and that allows adding new terms to the vocabulary.

Prerequisite knowledge¶

• Concept: Content Entities and Fields
• Concept: Taxonomy
• Adding Basic Fields to a Content Type

Site prerequisites¶

The Recipe content type must exist. See Adding a Content Type.

Steps¶

1. In the Manage administrative menu, navigate to Structure > Taxonomy (admin/structure/taxonomy). You will see the Tags vocabulary that was created with the core Standard installation profile. (Note that the name and description of this vocabulary are shown in English on this page; see Concept: User Interface, Configuration, and Content translation for an explanation.)

2. Click Add vocabulary, and fill in the values below.

   Field name	Explanation	Example value
   Name	The name of the vocabulary	Ingredients
   Description	A brief note about the vocabulary	(Leave blank)

   

3. Click Save. You will be taken to the Ingredients page, which shows a list of all the terms in this vocabulary.

4. Click Add term. Enter "Butter" in the Name field. Click Save.
5. You will receive a confirmation about the term you created. Add more terms. For example, "Eggs" and "Milk".
6. In the Manage administrative menu, navigate to Structure > Content Types (admin/structure/types). Click Manage fields for your Recipe content type.
7. Click Create a new field. The Add field page appears. Choose the Reference field type from the Choose a field type options. Click Continue. The Add field page appears with a form to configure the field.

8. Enter values from the table below. Click Continue.

   Field name	Explanation	Value
   Label	The title to give the field	Ingredients
   Choose an option below:	Type of content to reference	Taxonomy term

   

9. On the following configuration screen, enter the values from the table below. Click Save settings.

   Field name	Explanation	Value
   Help text	Help shown to users creating content	Enter ingredients that site visitors might want to search for
   Type of item to reference	The type of entity that is referenced by the field	Taxonomy term
   Allowed number of values	The number of values a user can enter	Unlimited
   Reference type > Reference method	Select the method used to choose allowed values	Default
   Reference type > Vocabulary	Select the vocabulary to choose allowed values from	Ingredients
   Reference type > Create referenced entities if they don't already exist	Whether new ingredient terms can be created from the content editing form	Checked

   

10. Click Save settings. You will be taken back to the Manage Fields page. A message will be displayed saying that the configuration for Ingredients is complete.

Videos¶

Attributions

Written and edited by Bob Snodgrass, and Jojy Alphonso at Red Crackle.