TPb5 and RC3 Category question

[Mick]

I just realized that any page created needs to be under a category.   Quite frankly i think is a bummer.

If i want to make a "about me" page, it has to be under a "whatever" category like this:

mysite >> whatever >> about me


when in TP98 you could make pages alone without categories like this:

mysite >> about me


Am i thinking too much?  We still have this option?

[ZarPrime]

Mick,

I'll take your word for it that it was like that TP 0.98 because I can't recall.  I think that since TP 1.0 first came out, all articles needed to be in a category to be available for viewing.  Until an article is assigned to a category only Admins will be able to see it since the membergroups that are allowed to view it are assigned to the category.

In beta 5, you will simply get a TP error that says "This article isn't assigned yet."

ZarPrime

[Mick]

Mick,

I'll take your word for it that it was like that TP 0.98 because I can't recall.  I think that since TP 1.0 first came out, all articles needed to be in a category to be available for viewing.  Until an article is assigned to a category only Admins will be able to see it since the membergroups that are allowed to view it are assigned to the category.

In beta 5, you will simply get a TP error that says "This article isn't assigned yet."

ZarPrime

Yep,....  i seen the "TP error".   Unfortunately i have to assign categories to pages that i feel they dont need them.

[Freddy]

What I do is just make an 'Other' category and anything that doesn't fit goes in there.

[Xarcell]

It was like that at one time, but so many errors came from it.

Maybe Bloc can revisit?

For now, I just make a category called "pages", and put my pages there.

[Mick]

Thanx for the ideas.....

I was having trouble on what to call these pages.   "pages" sounds good.

Thanx.

FWIW,  i dont think i had any errors with orphan pages in TP98.

[bloc]

The problem is that permissions are directly tied to categories, but using stand-alone articles means those permissions must be stored *just* for that article alone. It will be confusing because you might first setup a article, set permission, then move it later to a category and suddenly it no longer show for certain member-groups(since its now following the category permissions)

I feel this is less intuitive than knowing that ANY article must be in a category, end of story lol. What might be a option though, is to select that the category should NOT show through "cat=xxx" - which for standalone articles collected up will just look strange. It could also omit the category link in linktree then. Effectively be a "hidden" category, only visible in TP admin.

How does that sound?

[Mick]

I feel this is less intuitive than knowing that ANY article must be in a category, end of story lol. What might be a option though, is to select that the category should NOT show through "cat=xxx" - which for standalone articles collected up will just look strange. It could also omit the category link in linktree then. Effectively be a "hidden" category, only visible in TP admin.

How does that sound?

Yes,..... it sure sounds good.