How can I link a user to taxonomy terms?

Posted by Fransie on June 18, 2007 at 2:35pm

Hello,

I applaud the brilliant idea of turning user profiles as nodes! I think it is just what I need, but I am having difficulties proving it.

I desperately want to associate users with taxonomy terms. I also want overviews based on this association, like:
What are the taxonomy terms for a particular user?
What users belong to a certain taxonomy term?
List all users with an array of taxonomy terms
See the taxonomy tree (like in taxonomy_dhtml) with an array of associated users

I understand that I can use nodeprofile, nodefamily and usernode to at least make the association between users and taxonomy terms, but I have not yet been able to achieve this. I have user nodes now, they were created automatically by the usernode module. But how can I make it possible for users to relate themselves with taxonomy terms? Can anyone explain what I should do or maybe just give me a hint?

Peace,

Frans

By the way, I use Drupal 5.1.

Categories: nodeprofile, profiles as nodes, usernodes

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How typical! After posting

Posted by Fransie on June 18, 2007 at 3:12pm

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How typical! After posting the above article I found out that I have to go to admin/content/taxonomy to associate a taxonomy category with usernodes. Oh well... I hope my other wishes will be granted too!

I'd like to follow up the question a little more with another...

Posted by bfbryan1811 on June 25, 2007 at 9:06pm

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question.
Is it possible to automatically asign a taxonomy term to a usernode when the usernode is created? Ideally I'd like to assign the tax term based on the user's role. This would be helpful in locking down who can see what usernode's and for user searching too.

Hi, I've done this (assigned

Posted by greg.harvey on October 10, 2007 at 3:18pm

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Hi,

I've done this (assigned a vocabulary to usernode) but it doesn't show up when I go to edit a user! :-(
Any suggestions?

Thanks,

I used CCK Taxonomy and CCK

Posted by ebeyrent on October 24, 2007 at 2:10pm

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I used CCK Taxonomy and CCK Taxonomy Super Select Ultra for this.

For example, I set up a vocabulary for Languages, and added English, French, etc as terms. I then on my User Profile content type added the CCK field to link back to the taxonomy.

HTH

Content profile for D6

Posted by strellman on November 7, 2008 at 9:21am

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It looks like the way to go is http://drupal.org/project/content_profile
Then you can treat user info as nodes, have taxonomy, views, and other tools.

http://2tell.org/boring

http://2tell.org/doubt