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    • Categorize Calendar Items and Blog Entries ?

    Posted by madmat28 posts: 27 ☆ ☆ ☆

    I just finished the categorization of file uploads, editing and deleting work fine as well.
    Besides trying to find a way to donate these improvements to the community, I continue working on the categorization of other objects, like calendar items and blog entries.
    But I stumbled into some things there...first of all, is it possible at all to achieve this ?
    With "files" you have some real "physical" objects to handle, but i´m dont get a grab on those mentioned above...
    Any ideas ?

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    Posted by Danny Staple posts: 23 ☆ ☆ ☆ United Kingdom

    > I just finished the categorization of file uploads, editing and deleting work fine as well.
    > Besides trying to find a way to donate these improvements to the community, I continue working on the categorization of other objects, like calendar items and blog entries.
    > But I stumbled into some things there...first of all, is it possible at all to achieve this ?
    > With "files" you have some real "physical" objects to handle, but i´m dont get a grab on those mentioned above...
    > Any ideas ?
    As far as I can see, each blog post is a database record (or collecion of), and so adding categorization of individual posts (a feature I would look forward to and use) would involve putting a table in the database - a link table, so multiple categories can be assigned to post items (it is a many-many relationship). As far as I can see, there is a blog post ID, and a category ID, which are what you would have in the links table. The same method can probably be applied to calendar items.

    Anyway - well done for the work so far. It is most definately a direction I like.

    Danny

    Posted by madmat28 posts: 27 ☆ ☆ ☆

    Categorization of blog posts works fine in the meantime, no addtional tables needed.
    Calendar items seem more difficult, lets see...

    "a link table, so multiple categories can be assigned to post items"

    That table is already there, called tiki_categorized_objects and its used for all kind of categorizations... 😀