Taxonomy Search Module

Allows a user to use a taxonomy hierarchy to pre-select a list to be used as a select list (e.g. drop down)

The Taxonomy Search Widget is an addon widget to the node reference field type. It allows the admin to set up a taxononmy vocabulary that the user can select from to limit the node selection to only those nodes tags with a specific taxonomy term. It uses AJAX to update the selection widget.

Say you have pages on animals tagged with a taxonomy, and you have a content type that node references one of your animal pages. This widget means that the user first selects the type of animal, giving them a manageable selection box to find the right animal page from.

In short - all this does is make it nicer for the person selecting the node reference....

No extra data is stored in the node.

let take that step by step. Lets assume you have 100's of products, each of which is a node. Now, lets say you set up a vocabulary called productType. Each product node is tagged with one of the terms from your vocabulary (taxonomy).

So, now, select a node reference with this widget, and select your "productType" vocabulary, and when you come to use the form that you have created, you will have a pull down list of the terms in the vocabulary. When you select a term from the vocabulary (taxonomy) you will be presented with a pull down list of the nodes that are tagged with that term.

Millage will vary etc, but I hope somebody will find it useful.

One rainy day, maybe it would be nice if the initial pull down selection box was made into some sort of nested popup menu type object....

I would like to thank Victor Kane (http://groups.drupal.org/user/1795) for his help, and tutorial (http://groups.drupal.org/node/3471)