perhaps I am making things harder than I need to...

Many of my content types, well dmfile in particular need to be
categorized in different ways.

a dmfile object needs to be categorized in a minumum of 3 category
"branches"

example:

1. Division - A, B, C
2. Product Line - Hardware, Software, Accessory
3. Publication Type - Brochure, Spec Sheet, Order Form

each of the 3 above have a pretty long list of options so to make it
easier on the contributor I wanted to break these selections in to
parts. So what I did was extend dmfile so I had properties:
catDivision,catProduct,catPubtype then using form tools, I ftalias
directly to that branch in the tree.

Now I am thinking I have made a mistake in that it will be harder to
leverage builtin category tools for rules, as refcategories will be
unusable, etc...

so... if I merge these back in to catFile, is there a way for me to
make the edit handler for adding.modifying dmfiles easier on the user?

I am not sure if this makes sense at all. in a nutshell you MUST
select ONE divsion, ONE  productline and  ONE publication type from
the category tree, but rendering the entire tree in one field will
overwhelm the user and they are  likely to get checkbox happy.

Lastly, I want to use the new verity plugin, so I need to add some
sort of category so I can filter dmfiles into specific collections for
searches which will be based on policygroups... ie members can see
some "pubtypes", customers can see others, field service engineers see
others still...

Ideas?

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