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Taxonomy

Taxonomies (Tags) allow you to organize content to make it easy for your site users to browse and to deliver content appropriate for them. It also enhances content search. Taxonomies are classifications of logical relationships between content. In Ibexa DXP you can create many taxonomies, each with many tags. The platform mechanism enables creating any entities with a tree structure and assign them to a Content item.

Default tag configuration is available in config/packages/ibexa_taxonomy.yaml The associated Content Type is tag.

    taxonomies:
        tags:
            parent_location_remote_id: taxonomy_tags_folder
            content_type: tag
            field_mappings:
                identifier: identifier
                parent: parent
                name: name

Configuration keys

• ibexa_taxonomies - section responsible for taxonomy structure where you can configure other taxonomies
• ibexa_taxonomies.tags.parent_location_remote_id - Remote ID for Location where new Content items representing tags are created
• ibexa_taxonomies.tags.content_type - Content Type identifier which stands for the tags
• ibexa_taxonomies.tags.field_mappings - Field Types map of a Content Type which taxonomy receives information about the tag from.

Three fields are available: identifier, parent and name. The identifiers correspond to Field names defined in the Content Type. The name Field is used to automatically generate an identifier.

Customize taxonomy structure

You can create other taxonomies than the one predefined in the system, for example a Content category. To do it, first, create a new Content Type with content_category identifier and include the following Field Types:

• category_identifier of ezstring type
• parent of ibexa_taxonomy_entry type
• name of string type

Next, in config/packages/ibexa_taxonomy.yaml add the following configuration:

ibexa_taxonomy:
    taxonomies:
        tags:
            parent_location_remote_id: taxonomy_tags_folder
            content_type: tag
            field_mappings:
                identifier: identifier
                parent: parent
                name: name
        content_categories:
            parent_location_remote_id: content_categories_remote_id
            content_type: content_category
            field_mappings:
                identifier: category_identifier
                parent: parent_category
                name: name_field
            assigned_content_tab: false

Hide Content tab

The Content tab in taxonomy objects, for example, tags and categories, lists all Content assigned to the current taxonomy. You can hide the Content tab in the Categories view.

In the config/packages/ibexa_taxonomy.yaml add assigned_content_tab with the flag false (for other taxonomies this flag is by default set to true):

ibexa_taxonomy:
    taxonomies:
        content_categories:
            parent_location_remote_id: content_categories_remote_id
            content_type: content_category
            field_mappings:
                identifier: category_identifier
                parent: parent_category
                name: name_field
            assigned_content_tab: false

For more information about available functionalities of tags, see User Documentation.