topic Re: Categorisation in Alfresco Archive

Categorisation

boneill — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:13:35 GMT

Its great that you can now add a piece of content to a category. But how do you browse sites content by category. I can see the tags left hand element that allows content to be browsed by tags. No Category element appears though. How do you set this up.Regards

Re: Categorisation

mikeh — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:46:15 GMT

You don't currently. You could take a copy of the tree filter and wire that up to Categories with some development.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Categorisation

boneill — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:47:34 GMT

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the response. Is browsing by category on the roadmap, if so whats the timeframe for release. I suggest that its meaningless having ability to add content to a category if you can't use it for finding the content you want.

Regards

Re: Categorisation

mikeh — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:59:29 GMT

It's not on the roadmap as far as I'm aware.

Accessing categories came "for free" with the new Forms Service. It's the same picker as the tags, with a very slightly different configuration. Categories themselves cannot be managed from within Share so, until we add that ability, I'd suggest that accessing categories is a "nice to have" for now. But you're correct, it's of little use today.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Categorisation

othlen — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:26:41 GMT

Hi Mike,

last year you said:

Categories themselves cannot be managed from within Share so, until we add that ability, I'd suggest that accessing categories is a "nice to have" for now. But you're correct, it's of little use today.

What is the current status? I agree that categories are nice, really "very" nice to have: they play an essential role when you have a large user base and/or a lot of documents.

Bye

Oth