Original Edit Term module project page text

Description

Current text and project: http://www.drupal.org/project/edit_term

Edit term provides a block on taxonomy listing pages with links to edit taxonomy terms .

UPDATE: With a patch from new co-maintainer Dan Morrison (dman), edit_term will become 75% more Drupaly as it provides edit and view tabs directly on taxonomy listing pages.

The main features left to look at are how automatically to find and display itself for uses of taxonomy that override the taxonomy/term menu structure. We've hardcoded it for image, and for place, but it would be nice to read off the same table taxonomy redirect manipulates to make this work for all well-coded modules and custom taxonomy_redirect overrides.

This makes it easier to immediately edit term name, synonyms, description, and weight for the term you are viewing without navigating through your site's administrative back end.

Currently the edit link is displayed in a block automatically created for the right sidebar. This block will only appear on taxonomy listing pages (such as taxonomy/term/123) and only to users with "administer taxonomy" permissions. This edit link is most useful when you are using pathauto to modify your category paths and have no convenient way to discover what the path to the edit link is. (I created this module just to have an easy way to see the term ID.)

This is a very simple module and creates no database tables. Agaric is quite open to extending this module with optional on-page forms, or edit links next to term links, or mind-reading functionality, but we have no immediate plans. A block with an edit link is sufficient to bring taxonomy into line with the ease-of-use front-end editing access Drupal users have come to expect from nodes, users, views, panels, etc.

(It belatedly occurs to Agaric that there may be a taxonomy information block module that includes an edit link. Contact us with any leads. Also, on IRC |Gatsby| suggested the NAT module to be able to treat terms as nodes and edit information that way.)

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