+1 on removing hierarchical categories. I don't know of any Roller blogs that use hierarchical categories.
- Dave On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Glen Mazza <glen.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Team (and all others), I'm working on updating my blog to using Roller > 5.1 on OpenShift: http://web-gmazza.rhcloud.com/blog/. One problem that's > popped up is that there seems to be no defined ordering of blog categories. > I would like to have "Web Services" --> "Java" --> "Tech" --> "Misc" > displayed in that order but the ordering appears to be completely random. > If I try to rename categories to get them in the desired ordering, or if I > delete categories and add them in again in the hopes they will be placed in > the desired location (or at least at the top or the bottom of the list), > they still get inserted in the category list at random locations. > > This problem has existed for some time (https://issues.apache.org/ > jira/browse/ROL-1166), but may be getting worse due to the result of the > switch from OpenJPA (which may have internally assured that new items would > always be kept at the end) to EclipseLink. However, the underlying > weblogcategory table has no ordering column so there seems to be nothing > that we can formally rely on to ensure proper ordering. Anybody know > otherwise? If not, I'd like to make the following changes in Roller 5.1: > > 1.) Add a new "ordering" column to the weblogcategory table. Similar to > priority in the bookmark table, it would be a numeric indicator of the > relative ordering of the category with respect to the others. Until the > user interface is updated to allow for moving categories up and down, new > categories will always be placed at the bottom of the list, allowing a user > to get his desired category ordering by the way he enters in new categories. > > As part of migration from earlier Roller versions, the "ordering" could be > null (so, random as before) until a category change is made, and then > numbers assigned based on location in the category list. > > 2.) As part of #1, I'd like to eliminate sub-categories from the > weblogcategory table. They're seldom used (I don't know of any blog, > Roller or otherwise, that has them today), unsupported by most if not all > Roller themes, don't work the way people would like[1], and their use case > is usually met today by using blog entry tags, multiple blogs or a Wiki > instead. The idea of subcategories is that I can have "Finance", "Sports", > and "Travel" as main categories, "Asian Markets", "European Markets", "USA > Market", "NHL", "NBA", "NFL", etc., as subcategories, but anybody blogging > so extensively to need subcategories is probably going to have create > separate and specialized Finance, Sports, and Travel blogs anyway. > > As part of migration from earlier Roller versions, either the parentID > column from weblogcategory table will be removed/ignored, making all blog > categories top-level, or similarly the parentID column for each category > will be set to the "root" category and just the UI changed to no longer > support subcategories. > > WDYT? > > Regards, > Glen > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-1593, > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-1252 >
