[TYPO3-ect] Global categories startup

[steve ryan]

Hey Elmar,
  I'm with Ernesto, pages are a pretty good category tree.
Advantages ->
* The backend page tree is a no work visual category editor. It also 
very intuitive for record editing by being similar to a file manager.
* Every table has a foreign key reference available for this 'category'
* Many extensions work with the idea of rendering the records on the 
current page.

I have recently finished a typo3 portal using a dozen record types that 
used pages as the global category/subcategory. Worked well.

I'm not sure it's viable or appropriate to ask extension developers to 
follow a standard of including any other specified db reln field for 
categorisation????

Thanks for all the good work you do by inciting conversation.

cheers

Stever



Elmar Hinz wrote:
> Hi folks,
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> I just want to drop in a short notice, that I am starting with globals
> categories now, although it is not my intention to do all ECT stuff
> alone. The reason is simple. I got a an order end of last week, that
> requires global categories, so I have got the funding necessary funding
> to work on this.
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> More upon this during the next days.
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> Regards
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> Elmar
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