[TYPO3-ect] Concept of global categories

[Ingo Renner]

Am Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:02:46 +0100 schrieb Elmar Hinz:

Hi Elmar,
 
> some of you seemed to be interested to establish a system of global categories.
> I will work this week on an article about the scopes of ECT and would like to
> mention the idea of global categories. Could you please point out your ideas about?
> 
> What is missing in the current system?
> Why is wrong with the concept of a global storage page?
> How should the media categories of DAM be related to it?
> How should internationalization be handled?
> How to use different global systems for different sites in the same database?

I think it was me who proposed this in the wiki.
The point is that it is sometimes anoying to see that every extension
brings it's own categories.

-global categories (per site) could be easyier for the customers and also
eaier for the developers since they don't hev to care that much about it
anymore
-problems I see are things like the tt_news categories which have several
properties that need still to be handled per extension I think
-to use the categories from DAM might be a good idea, but I haven't thought
about that yet
-the categories should still be limited per site and not super global for
an entire installation IMHO


Ingo

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