[TYPO3-english] TYPO3 CMS 6.0 Category

[Philipp Gampe]

Hi Christian Tauscher,

Christian Tauscher wrote:

> I am sure its a nice feature....
> 
> systemrecord "category"
> 
> You can Create them, delete, edit even watch them in BE, but what the
> heck....
> 
> Even the core  does not use them....

No, but extensions can use it.

> What ist the meaning of this? Could't find a place where this kind of
> Record is needed.

If an extension marks a table as categorizable, then fields will be added 
tranparently.

t3lib_extMgm::makeCategorizable(
      $extensionKey, $tableName,
      $fieldName = 'categories', $options = array()
    );

There should also be an option in the Install Tool.

['SYS']['defaultCategorizedTables']

Although, it does not seem to do anything ... at least, it is not used in 
core.

Best regards
-- 
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