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Category display on Alfresco Share

kayan — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:14:43 GMT

Hi,Currently I am evaluting Alfresco 3.0 and I wanted to know how can i see the category list on Alfresco share UI. I have added some category to the documents on the document libray but on the share UI am not able to see it.Can anyone help me , how can we manage category on Share UI?Many ThanksKay

Re: Category display on Alfresco Share

tonytony — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:21:14 GMT

The tagging feature isn't good enough?

Re: Category display on Alfresco Share

kayan — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:44:53 GMT

Hi,

I have also tried adding some tags to the document. But the document library does not reflect those tags on share UI.

Thanks
Kayan

Re: Category display on Alfresco Share

mikeh — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:20:22 GMT

How are you adding the tags?

Mike

Re: Category display on Alfresco Share

kayan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:08:10 GMT

Hi Mike,

I have added the tags through "alfresco UI" (http://localhost:8080/alfresco) going into "sites/test/documentlibrary".

Thanks
Kayan

Re: Category display on Alfresco Share

mikeh — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:54:38 GMT

I'm guessing you didn't spot the

:!: This space is managed by Alfresco Share. Please use the Alfresco Share application to work with content within this space and any sub-spaces.

warning just above the folders? As the warning indicates, please use the Share application to manage document and spaces that are part of a Share site.

Mike

Re: Category display on Alfresco Share

kayan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:07:10 GMT

Hi Mikie,

Thanks for your information. On my first doubt, cant i able to add category to the document on Share UI?

Thanks
Kayan

Re: Category display on Alfresco Share

mikeh — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:27:22 GMT

Who's Mikie? :wink:

Tags are an implementation of Categories, so you can consider them in the same way; it's just that they're not quite so formal as they can be added by any user.

"Old style" Categories aren't implemented or visible in the current Share client.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Category display on Alfresco Share

kayan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:55:03 GMT

Hi Mike,

Ohh sorry ..it was my mistake

But can i assign hierarchical tags to a document as i used to do with Categories. As for example how can i assign a document with tag as a tree structure like Asia/South Asia/India ?

Thanks
Kayan

Re: Category display on Alfresco Share

mikeh — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:02:43 GMT

Short answer is that you don't.

Tags are, I think, more useful like that. Depending on your requirements, you'd tag a document with Asia, South_Asia* and India - or just India.

Mike

[size=85]* Note currently we don't support spaces in tags.[/size]

Re: Category display on Alfresco Share

kayan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:17:23 GMT

Thanks mike for your information.

Thanks
Kayan

Re: Category display on Alfresco Share

vdietmar — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:03:56 GMT

I actually came across the same question but don't quite agree to your point, Mike.

I think categories and tags belong to the same familiy but are two different concepts. While categories are predefined and centralized, tags are more user generated and democtratic. Both concepts are fine and suited for different use cases. But I don't think tags can actually replace categories. Both can actually live together.

Now is Alfreso Share more the Web 2.0 part of Alfresco and therefore more in favour of tags, I understand. But neverless, those who actually want to use Alfresco Share in an Enterprise (which I think is perfectly valid) will actually miss the category support here.

Re: Category display on Alfresco Share

mikeh — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:01:07 GMT

It's a fair point and is just something we didn't have time to implement. It would be fairly trivial to add a read-only view of the Categories a document belonged to, but a more useful implementation would involve a category tree (e.g. under the Library tree on the Doc Lib), Category picker, etc.

Some form of Category picking will be coming in v3.2 as part of the new Forms Service, so you'll at least be able to categorise documents.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Category display on Alfresco Share

vdietmar — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:25:57 GMT

Thx, Mike. I am looking forward to forms anyway

PS: How does rating of a post work? I have seen the not about it in Mike's signature but couldn't find this option yet.