Question

I have some content I need to start categorizing. We’ve built the system a while ago, the content is growing a lot so now we’re finding a few years later we should start categorizing this stuff. How can I enable taxonomy for this content?

Thanks

Jeff

Answer 1

You can absolutely enable taxonomy on already existing content types and nodes. There will be no effect of course until people actually edit the content to add terms.

In order to categorize the content I would recommend http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations
It’s awesome and saved my in the past during migration cleanup! Throw on some “exposed filters” for node type, then add some field columns that will help you sort things, make the table columns sortable, so you can sort on the fly.

Then add in your allowed actions on the view style to enable updating taxonomy terms in bulk.
This should take care of our needs.

BTW: If you find yourself changing your mind about categories you should make use of http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_manager to MERGE terms and thus the associated content.