Categorizing sites in Share

[cybertoast]

Reading through the forums it seems that the Categories feature which is available in /alfresco is not visible/accessible in /share. I've got a problem where I need to be able to display the My Sites dashlet with categories, or some form of grouping. The reason is that my sites belong to different corporate divisions, and I need to show the Division -> Site hierarchy to all users. A user may belong to multiple Divisions and have access to Sites across these Divisions.

Is there a way I can tag/categorize or group Sites in such a way that I can access this grouping identifier through a remote call so that I can create a dashlet as described above?

Thanks

[mikeh]

If you look in the Sites space using Explorer, you'll see the various site top-level containers. It should be pretty easy to add categories to each of these how you'd like and then create a web script to send those categories back as a JSON response given a site name (or array or site names).

Mike

[cybertoast]

The

create a web script to send those categories back as a JSON response given a site name

is where the problem is for me. Is there an example I can start from to get a sense of how things like category can be accessed? I'm new to this, so any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

[mikeh]

Categories are queried in the "pickerchildren" webscript, used by the category picker in the Forms runtime (used when you "Edit Metadata" on a Share asset that has the cm:classifiable aspect)

The webscript URI is

/api/forms/picker/{type}/{store_type}/{store_id}/{id}/children‍

Thanks,
Mike