Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Proposal for categories extension

[Alex Borges]

I dont see how this is not already done by subcategories...

One thing migth be that the api doesnt have an obvious way to get the
parents and sub categories, or to search  by them in an obvious api way.
The new contacts backend has a way to do this, just crank it up.

El mié, 10-09-2003 a las 10:22, Kai Hofmann escribió:
> Hello
> 
> while working with Lars on the TTS update we found that the phpgw categories
> allow only one category per application - which is not enough for the TTS
> when
> things like platform, bug type etc. are required.
> 
> So I would suggest to add another column to the database table
> phpgw_categories
> named cat_apppart or cat_appmodule or maybe cat_subappname.
> Such a field will allow an application to have more than one (local)
> categorie (group).
> 
> For the moment we worked around this by a small hack -
> using tts_type and tts_platform as application name.
> 
> Adding the database field will allow allow more flexibility like
> unlimited user definable categories. So users would be able to extend
> the TTS by additional categories like "department", "network layer"
> or what else you could imagine (for the case the user interface for such
> additions
> will be provided).
> 
> 
> Greetings
> 
>    Kai