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Thursday, 05 November 2009
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The category management needs some improvement:

  • I think you should abandon the term "section" and just use category throughout, with the concepts of hierarchal categories/sub-categories. Right now there's inconsistency (menu item says secions, but table listing says category name).
  • There's no way to take a top level category (section) and move it. For example, if I have several top level categories/sections that I want to group together inside a new top level category, the only way to do that is directcly through the db.
  • I'm guessing that you chose to not display categories in a tree layout because the potential complexity and size of  the structure. But it makes it difficult to navigate and find what you're looking for, as you need to keep drilling deeper in a folder-type way. It would be nice to improve that. One option might be to have an accordion-style trigger that opens the list of subcategories for each category that has some.
  • With the current display structure, one significant missing piece is that there's no header/title to let you know what section/category you're currently in when looking at subcategories.
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Written by shitz STAFF on 06 November 2009

Hello.

You miss main idea of section/category structure at Resources component. It's not same as Joomla Core.

Mean that section is a components, because it might have own type conten and looks differently than another sections. But category just a instrument for organize a structure into component.

So, thereby you dn't need to move one section to another, because it's not possible to merge different components.

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Written by lcdservices VIP on 06 November 2009

I understand that distinction. However:

1) people may still need to move things around because they need to adjust the structure to accommodate new or unanticipated needs. even if that top level has a special function w/ parameters, this is ultimately just a tree-based architecture, and it would not be uncommon for people to need to move at that top level.

2) your terminology/reference is still inconsistent. When you go to Sections, the title column states categories.

3) Having a tree effect for the categories, or drop down slide effect would still be very useful.

4) Personally, I would prefer you abandon a distinction between section/category, allow all categories to have the full set of parameters available, and then introduce the concept of inherited parameters, similar to K2 component. So i can create a top level category, configure parameters, and then for all sub-levels indicate that they should inherit parameters from their parent (or any other category). that gives much more control over layout on a fine grained basis, while still allow the parent-inherited effect.

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Written by shitz STAFF on 10 November 2009

  1. If you need to move/copy categories at anywhere it's possible. But I told that move section to another section is impossible.
  2. Noted, we'll try to make it clearly.
  3. At admin side? This is noted and we had such request. We are planning to make it.
  4. You need to switch to Advanced mode at Configuration. It allows to have same patameters at categories as at sections.

Thanks.

 

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