Multiple taxonomy select

  • Resolved gorbacheff

    (@gorbacheff)


    14 years, 11 months ago

    Hi! Thanks for the very good plugin, first of all!

    My issue is: I need to have several custom taxonomies be selected at once.
    Current drop-down allows me to select only one.
    The best solution would be a drop-down window with checkboxes, so I can tick|untick the necessary ones.
    How to achieve this?

    It is required, because I have a hierarchical custom taxonomy (i.e. planet names – continent names – countries).

    Switch to terminput doesn’t work – it simply erases the inputed with commas items

    Help is greatly appreciated.

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  • Plugin Author scribu

    (@scribu)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Switch to terminput doesn’t work – it simply erases the inputed with commas items

    Are you sure? Does it happen if you switch to the default theme (twentyeleven)?

    Thread Starter gorbacheff

    (@gorbacheff)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Yep. Tested on twentyeleven, sure.
    Mechanics: field shown -> autosuggest works -> delimiting comma added -> looks fine -> submit -> submit erases this taxonomy (in admin area, nothing is ticked of the options, even previously ticked).

    Anyway, terminput is not the best solution.
    Ideal for me: combination of checkboxes + input field.
    I require my users to
    — select something from the list,
    — also they must be able to add some new values.
    (i.e. if I forgot to mention one of the country in the list, user can add one)

    Plugin Author scribu

    (@scribu)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Ah, I remember I fixed that in the development version (2.1.2-alpha).

    I agree that checkboxes + input field would be better in your case, but it feels clunky for Front-end Editor.

    What I mean is that I just can’t see a way of adding that kind of UI inline. It would require a modal dialog, which I’m not keen on adding at all.

    Thread Starter gorbacheff

    (@gorbacheff)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Okay, works for terminput now!

    As for checkboxes (without complementary input field) — any possibilities? Or not UI-inlineable?

    Plugin Author scribu

    (@scribu)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    The only way it would be inlinable would be if you could see only one term at a time and scroll through the rest, but I think that would be worse than the simple text input.

    Thread Starter gorbacheff

    (@gorbacheff)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Understood. Okay, resolved, still, think of my issue

    I consider it to be quite a common feature request, as custom hierarchical taxonomies are very useful. Maybe a modal dialog, like one yours for wysiwyg-editor — would be a much favoured solution.

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