category jail vs category jail root Posted by Serio Being Wed 25 Mar 2020 08:21 GMT-0000 posts: 30 ☆ ☆ Can anyone explain the difference between category jail vs category jail root? Giving examples of what they do exactly. On the documentation is a definition for them, but I would like to get a proper answer about their difference.
Posted by Jonny Bradley Wed 25 Mar 2020 11:18 GMT-0000 posts: 126729 ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Serio Being wrote: Can anyone explain the difference between category jail vs category jail root? Thanks Serio, good question! And i see there's no good documentation that i can find on doc.t.o, which we should fix, on either Perspectives and/or Workspace. Pref category_jail_root is set in global preferences, and is used as the "container" category for all your per-perspective category_jail categories, and means any categories outside that root category will behave as normal, non-jail categories. So an example might be (using the usual educational example of departments, Physics, Chemistry and Biology): Top Level Category Departments (set as category_jail_root) Physics (set as category_jail in the Physics perspective) Chemistry (set as category_jail in the Chemistry perspective) Biology (set as category_jail in the Biology perspective) School-wide Information Term Times (available to all departments) Help (available to all departments) Contact Info (available to all departments) Does that help? Sadly this profile http://profiles.tiki.org/Jailroot_Demonstration doesn't actually seem to use the category_jail_root pref, so not much help there...
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