Create custom datalist with category association

[fabiogomes_ti]

Hello everyone,

I need to create a datalist custom that allows the user to associate categories to items. I know you can use associations as "cm: person", "cm: content", "cm: cmobject", but when I try to use "cm: category" it does not work and does not gives error, in form appears the option to select the categories but does not appear the categories, only folders.

See my code:

                <associations>
          <association name="pro:categories_data_list">
             <title>Categories</title>
             <source>
                <mandatory>false</mandatory>
                <many>true</many>
             </source>
             <target>
                <class>cm:content</class>
                <mandatory>false</mandatory>
                <many>true</many>
             </target>
          </association>
       </associations>
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[kpagratis]

Did you ever find a fix for this issue?
I'm using a d:category property which works well enough but in the DataList display, the noeref is displayed and not the category value.  It's really annoying

[fabiogomes_ti]

Hi,

This make far long time, let-me see if i remember.
I think that i put in my custom datalist type the mandatory aspect "categories" like this:

<mandatory-aspects>
              <aspect>cm:taggable</aspect>
              <aspect>cm:generalclassifiable</aspect>
            </mandatory-aspects>
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And…

on share-config-custom.xml i put:

<field-visibility>
          <show id="cm:taggable" force="true" />
          <show id="cm:categories" />
        </field-visibility>
        <appearance>
          <field id="cm:taggable">
            <control>
              <control-param name="compactMode">true</control-param>
              <control-param name="params">aspect=cm:taggable</control-param>
              <control-param name="createNewItemUri">/api/tag/workspace/SpacesStore</control-param>
              <control-param name="createNewItemIcon">tag</control-param>
            </control>
          </field>
          <field id="cm:categories">
            <control>
              <control-param name="compactMode">true</control-param>
            </control>
          </field>
        </appearance>
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I hope that this can help you.