Introduction
Taxonomy, a powerful core module, gives your sites use of the organizational terms that allow you to connect, relate and classify your website's content. In Drupal, these terms are gathered within "vocabularies".
The Energy.gov Drupal platform employs global and office-specific vocabularies. Global vocabulary terms are shared by everyone in the platform; whereas, Office-Specific Topic terms are created at the request of a primary office group. These Office-Specific Topic terms are shared from the primary office group to its nested group(s), but these terms are not shared to other primary office groups.
Global Vocabularies
Energy.gov Platform Level Topics: A list of global terms that can be used to create collections of articles, download pages, or events based on a term. Multiple terms can be selected, but you must drill down to a term and add it. Then, drill down to the next term and add it. Only the bolded term at the end of a drill down is applied.
Energy.gov Platform Level Audience Terms: use these terms to target collections of articles, download pages, or events to specific audiences. Multiple terms can be selected.
Custom Topics: This freetext vocabulary allows us to create taxonomy terms on the fly. Sometimes there is a need to provide additional granularity to collections of articles, download pages, or events. In these cases, it may be necessary to combine an Office Specific Topic with a Custom Topic term. Please contact a System Administrator to work with the Custom Topic vocabulary.
Office-Specific Topic
Using the terms your office provided, system administrators created a list of Office-Specific Topics (OSTs) for your organization. Those Office-Specific Topics make up your organization's vocabulary. We can add to the vocabulary, if needed. Or, we can delete unused terms. Please contact a System Administrator, if you have questions about your office's vocabulary.