Category

a classification in a field of knowledge

Documentation

Categories are a kind of predefined "backgone" to organized content and facilitate navigation. Categories can be used for very different purposes. To effectively use categories you have to understand the difference to tags as they are available for TaggedTopics. So while tags are a kind of "keywords" that connect content in a per-to-per fashion, categories are a predefined hierarchy where content is situated in separate compartments.

Categories themselves are CategorizedTopics thus implementing a hierarchy.

See also:

• CategorizedTopic
• ClassifiedTopic
• TaggedTopic
• CategoryTemplate
• CategoryViewTemplate
• CategoryEditTemplate

%STARTSECTION{"readwrite"}%<!-- -->
%DBCALL{"Applications.RenderSimpleTopicCreator"
   FORM="%FORM{default="%WEB%.%TOPIC%"}%"
}%

%IF{
  "'%HIERARCHY{
     web="%URLPARAM{"web" default="%BASEWEB%"}%"
     nullformat="$count"
     depth="0"
   }%'!=0"
   then="$percntDBCALL{\"Applications.ClassificationApp.RenderCategoryBrowser\" 
     THEWEB=\"%URLPARAM{"web" default="%BASEWEB%"}%\"
     MODE=\"edit\"
     BUTTONS=\"filter, refresh\"
   }$percnt"
}%<!-- -->%ENDSECTION{"readwrite"}%

%STARTSECTION{"readonly"}%<!-- -->
%IF{
  "'%HIERARCHY{
     web="%URLPARAM{"web" default="%BASEWEB%"}%"
     nullformat="$count"
     depth="0"
   }%'!=0"
   then="$percntDBCALL{\"Applications.ClassificationApp.RenderCategoryBrowser\" 
     THEWEB=\"%URLPARAM{"web" default="%BASEWEB%"}%\"
     MODE=\"browse\"
     BUTTONS=\"filter, refresh\"
   }$percnt"
}%<!-- -->%ENDSECTION{"readonly"}%

Category form

Name:	Type:	Size:	Values:	Description:	Attributes:	Default:
TopicType	type	3	Category, ClassifiedTopic, CategorizedTopic, TaggedTopic, WikiTopic	Document type	h
TopicTitle	text	75
Summary	text	75		short description of this category
Redirect	topic	30		topic where to redirect to when visiting this category, e.g. a portal page representing this category
Tag	tag	30		keywords for this category
Category	cat	1	web="Applications/ClassificationApp"	one or more parent categories that this category is filed to	c
Icon	icon	30	cat="fonticon"	icon to be displayed listing this category
ImportedCategory	text	75		import a root category from another web; all categories below it will be imported to this web in a virtual way
SubCategories	natedit	0x35		specify sub-categories inline as a bullet list
Order	text	5		number used in sorting categories
Responsible Person	user+multi	30		person taking care of this category