- To create a new Taxonomy navigate to Structure > Taxonomy > Add vocabulary.
- Create the name of the Taxonomy. For example "Colors". Click Save.
- You'll be taken to a listing of the term for the Colors vocabulary.
- Click Add Term then fill in the fields as appropriate and Save.
- Now we will associate the Taxonomy with a Content Type
- Select the desired content type to attach you Taxonomy to by navigating to Structure > Content Types.
- On the Manage Fields tab select Add field.
- Under Add a new field select Taxonomy Term and give an appropriate label and save.
- Set Allowed number of values to Unlimited if you want the user to enter as many terms as they'd like.
- Configuration Screen
- Label: What the user will see as the title of the Taxonomy
- Reference Type
- Referenced Method: Default (not sure what the other does).
- Check "Create reference entities if they don't exist) if you want the user to be able to define their own terms. Otherwise they can only pick from the pre-defined terms.
- Available Vocabularies: Which vocabularies are pulled in.