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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 14, 2007 - 03:57 AM

  Hi guys,
  
  I'm a newbie in postnuke and have just installed it. Everything went smooth but there seems to be an issue with subcategories of FAQ categories.
  
  I read there's support for unlimited depth subcategories, but when I create subcategories of FAQ categories, they're not shown. FAQ only shows the first depth level, no subcategories.
  
  I placed "-1" as value for all categories and subcategories.
  
  Is this a bug, or doesn't postnuke support multi-level FAQ's?
  
  Thanks guys
  
  Jose
  
  P.S: not sure if this is the place to put this question, but couldn't find a more suited place.

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 22, 2007 - 02:33 PM

  I have a similar problem with the categories module in general.
  
  Editing the name of a top category makes it and all the cats inside it vanish from the top of the tree. So I created sub categories in it. When I edited the top category again, it vanished again. I looked into the data base and there was a new category created. I deleted that, and all the original, as well as my first set of categories were listed again.
  
  Also, when I post news, the box that says choose category should offer me all those categories to choose from, but there is nothing there - just choose category. I can submit the news anyway without selecting category.
  
  One more thing. When I edit news, there is no option to add/change category either.
  
  My Menu bar on the left throws an error when I click on categories (I can enter just fine into the admin menu.
  
  Can someone help me?

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• rgasch
  
  

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  • Registered: Jan 05, 2003
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  Posted: Aug 22, 2007 - 09:29 PM

  I think I can. This is a basic convention used by the category module which you guys are running up against. The category system uses the following conventions:
  
  1) If a category as a value of -1, it is considered to be a non-leaf node. This means that this category is considered to be a category which is intended to serve as a parent category for other categories.
  
  2) If a category as a value other than -1, it is considered to be a leaf node in the sense that it won't contain subcategories.
  
  3) Also be aware that a category can be marked (in)active, which also affects it's display status.
  
  The category takes note of this and for certain selections only offers you non-leaf nodes. The following example may illustrate this:
  
  - FAQ (-1)
  -- Politics (P)
  -- History (H)
  -- Other (-1)
  --- Sports (S)
  --- Entertainment (E)
  
  The values in brackets are the values held in the category 'value' field. In this example, for the selection of a new category's parent value, only the categories FAQ and Other will be displayed since all other categories have a value != -1.
  
  I hope this explanation makes sense and shines some light on your issues. If not, come back here and I'll try to do a better job explaining it.
  
  Greetings
  R

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 23, 2007 - 07:53 AM

  Ok, makes some sense. I guess I've found a direction. Now what remains is to fiddle around and make things how I want them to be. Why does editing the name of a category make it disappear though? I don't know how to get my stuff back anymore :(

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