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Document how to assign taxo terms at the node level. (#18)
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mjordan authored and dannylamb committed Jun 18, 2019
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The `entity_lookup` process plugin looks up an entity based on the configuration you give it. You use the `entity_type`, `bundle_key`, and `bundle` configurations to limit which entities you search through. `entity_type` is, as you'd suspect, the type of entity: node, media, file, taxonomy_term, etc... `bundle_key` tells the migrate framework which property holds the bundle of the entity, and `bundle` is the actual bundle id you want to restrict by. In this case we specify the vid (vocabulary id) has to be `islandora_models` - which is the machine name of the vocabulary we're interested in. In this plugin, `source` is the value to search for - in this case we're looking for the string "Image", which we've defined as a constant. And we're comparing it to the `name` field on each term by setting the `value_key` config.

This approach applies the same taxonomy term to all objects. If you want to assign a taxonomy term at the node level (that is, potentially a different term for each node) rather than to all the nodes being imported, you can use a configuration as illustrated next. In this example, we have a column in our CSV input file with the header 'model', which we define as the source of the `field_model` values:

```yml
field_model:
plugin: entity_lookup
# 'model' is the header of a field in our input CSV that contains the string value of the taxonomy term.
source: model
entity_type: taxonomy_term
value_key: name
bundle_key: vid
bundle: islandora_models
```

If you're not sure that the entities you're looking up already exist, you can use the `entity_generate` plugin, which takes the same config, but will create a new entity if the lookup fails. We use this plugin to create `subject` taxonomy terms that we tag our nodes with. A node can have multiple subjects, so we've encoded them in the CSV as pipe delimited strings.

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