Beginning Drupal 8

Chapter 4 ■ Taxonomy
Figure 4-6. Available content types
To the right of each content type in the list, you’ll see a “Manage fields” button for managing the fields
associated with that content type. You’ll learn in Chapter 5 how to add several types of fields to your content
type (e.g., you may wish to add a file upload field, an additional text box to collect specific information, check
boxes, radio buttons, or a select list to expand the content collected when someone uses that content type).
For now we will concentrate on adding the taxonomy vocabulary to our content type so that an author can
select one of the types of sports terms.
Click the “Manage fields” button to the right of the Article description to expose the form used to add
your vocabulary (see Figure 4-7). On this form, you will find a button called “Add field.” Click this button to
begin the process of adding your taxonomy field.
Figure 4-7. Managing fields
On the “Add field” screen, select “Taxonomy Term” from the drop-down list labeled “Add a new field.”
In the field titled Label, enter a descriptive title that will appear on the content editing form, informing
the content author what the purpose of this field is. For our example, enter “Type of sport.” Click the “Save
and continue” button. On the next screen you have the option to specify how many values from the list
the author may select when creating an article. The default value is Limited to one term from the list. For
the example, we want the author to have the ability to select several of the terms in our “Type of sport”
vocabulary, so we change the value in the select list from Limited to Unlimited. Next, click the “Save field
settings” button to continue to the settings page.
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