Document how to display a term label (or other field on a term) rather than the raw term name

[mjordan]

It should be possible to configure Drupal to display to users a human-friendly label for a term rather than the raw term name. For example, a taxonomy comprised of ISO 639-2 language codes ('eng', 'fra', etc.) should be configurable to use a "display label" field, for example

defined at the term level. What we should be displaying to the user in this case is 'English', not 'eng'. Using language codes as field values would be better practice than using language names, since the codes would be more machine-readable (useful if you are sharing your metadata for aggregation via OAI, for example).

I am using language as an example here but there are likely other examples of where metadata values are coded using standard vocabularies in this way.

Has anyone got any instructions for doing this sort of thing?

[seth-shaw-unlv]

I would swap the thinking on this one. I would use "Name" as the equivelent of Display label and then use a separate field for the machine value. In general you would want that "Display Value" to show and the few times you want the machine value instead (a view is the most likely case I can think of) are instances where you can configure using a different entity field.

[mjordan]

Nice! I'd probably add an additional field that indicated what vocabulary/authority the code came from, so that value could be namespaced when necessary.