Administering POSTS categories
A POSTS category is a way of grouping items that are related. The
POSTS administrator should decide what to call each category. There are a
number of pieces of information which are kept about a category.
- Language. This is the language of the category and all the items in
it. The default is the language of the person who is creating the category.
- Title. This is the short (less than 100 characters) title for the
category.
- Description. This is a longer (less than 255 characters) description
of the types of items which can be expected in this category.
- Restricted. This flag (yes or no) tells whether this particular
category is restricted to only those allowed access by the security system.
The default setup for Obliquid is that anybody (even those not logged in) can
view the POSTS category list. If you only want logged in users to view a
category, then you would have to flag the category as restricted=yes and then
assign the security object to "logged in users". The other option is to change
the security for the "posts_viewcats" navigation entry to "logged in users".
Then only logged in users will be able to view the list of categories.
If a category is not restricted, then all items in the category are not
restricted. If a category IS restricted, then all items in the category ARE
restricted. Default is NO.
- Auto Approved. This flag (yes or no) indicates whether items added
to this category will be automatically approved for viewing. If this flag is
set to NO, then an item which is added will not be available for viewing by
normal users until it has been manually approved by the POSTS administrator.
Default is YES.
- Order By. This field indicates which ITEM field to use to order the
items when an item list is displayed. There is a drop down list to select from.
Default is Last modification date.
- Sequence. This field is used to determine the sequence that categories
are listed in when they are displayed. Default is NEXT which will automatically
generate a sequence number 10 higher than the previous sequence number.
- Last Modified. This field is automatically maintained by the system
and is updated when ever a new item or object is added to the category.