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Congrats Ellislab! Dag(!), changelog looks like ya’ll did tons of work! Woo-ee! Looking forward to play around with the new Pages Module!

Congratulations. Very nice suprise this morning.

Cheers

Hi there,

Wow the changelog looks very nice!! 😊

Just a quick question though if no-one minds. I apologize if this is in the wrong place though and this post can be deleted if needed and I will post wherever else you would like me to but I was just wondering about custom category fields and don’t know if it is just my brain hurting or not but was wondering why they would be needed and how they would be used? I guess they are just static in use?

Thanks.

Mark

Well, they make a lot of sense to me, it’s for tying category-specific information to every entry. As an example, let’s take a list of addresses: all entries of the “Southwest” category can share a, I dunno,  “regional coordinator”, without having to use custom weblog fields, and having to input that info there manually, or abusing the category_description. I see a lot of potential uses there.

Hi there,

Wow the changelog looks very nice!! 😊

Just a quick question though if no-one minds. I apologize if this is in the wrong place though and this post can be deleted if needed and I will post wherever else you would like me to but I was just wondering about custom category fields and don’t know if it is just my brain hurting or not but was wondering why they would be needed and how they would be used? I guess they are just static in use?

Thanks.

Mark

This should explain things nicely 😊

http://ellislab.com/forums/viewreply/265770/

I was just wondering about custom category fields and don’t know if it is just my brain hurting or not but was wondering why they would be needed and how they would be used? I guess they are just static in use?

Thanks.

Mark

Two examples spring to mind:

- Multilingual sites.  While switching from one set of fields to another from the same weblog is relatively easy with weblog custom fields, trying to categorize anything was an obstacle because you didn’t have that same ability at the category level because of the fixed number of fields.  Now multilingual sites can have multiple sets of category names, descriptions etc for different langauges.

- More specific, I’m working on a site for a manufacturer of some complex products.  There are product families that contain product models.  By nature of being in a family, models share many characteristics - so we wanted to store that data at the family level but there’s more there than a name/description/image.  We ended up with two weblogs (product families and product models) and using relationships, but it took some custom work to replicate some category functionality (like building a list of link to “siblings”—other models that belong to the same family). Custom category fields might have worked better or at least been an option.

Well done.  Thanks for all your hard work!!