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Package Specification Summary for Package: categories

Summary:	Manage categories in category trees and let users map objects to categories.
Description:	Datamodel for category trees with supporting API and management pages. Provides a widget for general categorization of arbitrary objects and tracks which package instances use which category trees. Also supports localization.
Documentation:	Package Documentation
Maturity:	Immature
This package depends on:	acs-kernel acs-tcl
Packages that depend on categories:	ajax-filestorage-ui assessment connections contacts cop-base cop-ui curriculum dotlrn-catalog faq file-storage invoices lars-blogger logger project-manager xcms-ui xowiki
Package parameters:	None

Bug Tracker Summary for Package: categories

Open Bugs:	4
All Tracked Issues:	20
Latest Bug Opened:	2006-07-07 making Categories subsite-aware
Latest Bug Fixed:	2019-02-18 Missing locale fallback.
Top Bug Submitters:	Branimir Dolicki (3) Ben Koot (2) Lurch . (2) Jade Rubick (1) Dirk Gomez (1)
Top Bug Fixers:	Malte Sussdorff (9) Gustaf Neumann (3) Yves Goldberg (2) Ben Koot (1) Branimir Dolicki (1) Jeff Davis (1) Dave Bauer (1)

Code Metrics Summary for Package: categories

# Tcl Procs	85
# Tcl Lines	3082
# Tcl Blank Lines	362
# Tcl Comment Lines	144
# Automated Tests	9
# Stored Procedures	PG: 29 ORA: 52
# SQL Lines	PG: 1733 (blank 268 comments 247) ORA: 1531 (blank 220 comments 117)
# ADP pages	29
# ADP lines	360
# Include pages (categories/lib/)	6
# Documentation pages	9 (Package Documentation)
# Documentation lines	668
Browse Source	API-browser
Github Repository:	https://github.com/openacs/categories/tree/oacs-5-10

Feature requests

AN ABBREVIATION/REFERENCE KEY PER CATEGORY AND CATEGORY TREE. In ecommerce package, each bulk upload of associating categories with products requires working with the databases' index for 3 columns, which is not consistent accross sites. This gets laborious to work with after a while. Allowing categories to optionally explicitly define unique references would help with bulk uploading products, building online catalogs etc. and integrating with the [en:ref-unspsc]] package, which is/has a standardized referencing system. (This request from OpenACS.org Bug 1130)

CATEGORY ACTIVE/INACTIVE. Ecommerce needs to have categories include an attribute for each category that identifies if a category is active (in use) or not. That way, large category reference systems, such as http://www.unspsc.org/ can be imported without concern about overloading the shopping basket with categories that contain no products. (This request from OpenACS.org Bug 1130).

CATEGORY LIST/TREE MAP. Each category tree needs to have a list equivalent for speedy referencing, for cases when there might be many thousands of items in a category tree. (This request from OpenACS.org Bug 1130).

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