Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Re: xotcl and photo albums

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Posted by Malte Sussdorff on
Lurch, would you mind explaining why categories is a dead end? We are using it for exactly this purpose in at least five packages in OpenACS and never hit a problem, not to talk about a dead end.
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Posted by Ivan Histand on
It seemed to me also that Categories would work well for a photo album. The model is simple: An Album belongs to zero or more categories. Photos don't belong to categories, they only have keywords and attributes which describe them, not categorize. Search would be used to find photos related to keywords.

That said, one design idea that crossed my mind is to use Categories to store the keywords, by creating a new category for each new unique keyword. I havn't decided which is the better design.