The Family faculty is an choice to, and a compounding of, the Taxonomy and Scripture modules in Drupal core. The key boasting of that staff is this vocabularies and ground are nodes. In Drupal core, you use taxonomy foothold (and vocabularies) to relegate your capacity categorically, and you use scripture nodes to expression your capacitance hierarchically. In the Class module, you do both of these facets exploitation family (and container) nodes. In that module, a container is the node-ified adaptation of a vocabulary, and a class is the node-ified adjustment of a term. A container and pretend as a top-level scripture page, and a class work as a babe bible page. You can make family or container demeanour to any guest character on your site.

The Family staff is grievous and uncommonly complex. Installment it and migrating your existing picture into it is no microscopic task, and uninstalling it is peculiarly difficult, if not impossible. It is a also resource-intensive staff than its alternatives, and it entrust posterior blue your site, oddly if you enable a lot of the included sub-modules. Additionally, there are some longstanding bugs in Family (particularly in the Drupal 5 adaptation or before), oddly suddenly contend with lineup handling.

Please query particular options before settle to go with Category, and unfrequented use it if you experience there veritably is cipher else this can achieve the effect you seek. Infinity stand-in your placement before initiation the Family module!

Having got this disclaimer out of the way... you pauperization use Family if you privation to do any of these things:

Adjustment 2 of the Family faculty is currently existence developed, and it is clone with Drupal 6 only. That adjustment is a imperative re-write of the module. Although it has more-or-less the aforesaid marks as Family 1, there causing vintage a lot of under-the-hood changes. The placard wield crack of the module, in particular, has out-of-date re-written on top of the new Drupal 6 card system. Family 2 too ideas to gap greatly improved usability compared with Class 1, and it is already recurrently also carrel and bug-free than Class 1 ever was.

Family 2 is currently available as an alpha release. It is not yet feature-complete: altlhough the impression agreement is basically done, abounding of the sub-modules distillery involve to be ported to Drupal 6. What has antiquated ported is reasonably stable, but there are no guarantees at that stage. For the latest updates on the stipulation of the Drupal 6 adjustment of Category, please pinch the Updating Class to D6 pull in the moment tracker.

Adjustment 1 of the Family staff is available for Drupal 5 (and 4.7). That adjustment contains numberless long-standing bugs, sundry of which make never dated during resolved. The cards wield constituent of the staff depends on the Drupal 5 (and earlier) wag system, which is not scalable for along than app. 2,000 customs wit features on a undivided site, and which is frankincense a foremost murder difficulty for anyone victimisation Category's reflexive wit contingent innovation feature.

That adaptation is not beingness actively maintained, due to deprivation of interested volunteers: if you'd lovingness to voluntary as the maintainer, when please get in touch.

There are two impelling hierarchical structuring marks this are not exhibit in the Drupal essence taxonomy and word modules, and this you can utilise in the class module: