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Crippled Taxonomy

Taxonomy is the science of categorising. Joomla has 'Sections' which contain 'Categories' and each category can have several 'Articles'.

So, on one site, we have a section called 'Campuses' where each category in the section is a given campus (for e.g. 'Johannesburg', 'Cape Town', 'Bloemfontein'). So far so good. But now we run out of steam:

If you want each campus to have a bunch of 'Job Adverts', 'Personnel Profiles' and other campus-specific classification, you have run out of options.

The workaround might be to make each campus a top-level section, so that you can have categories of 'Job Adverts' etc. But, you now cannot:

  1. classify further if you need to,
  2. have an automatic selection of all job items in all campuses,
  3. have the list of campuses be generated automatically based on their classification.

All of this is trivially easy in Drupal, and part of the core structure.


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