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June 18, 2004

Coming Soon: Automatic Creation of SubCategory Hierarchies

I successfully tested a big new feature for SubCategories last night: automatic creation of category hierarchies. This is a MT 3 specific feature. To make use of this feature, you would simply need to create a category containing multiple category names seperated by a specified delimeter (I'll use '::' in this example).

So, if you create this category through the regular MT interface:

Alpha :: Beta :: Gamma

The following category hierarchy will be created:

  • Alpha
    • Beta
      • Gamma

Alpha and Beta will only be created if they do not exist already. If both Alpha and Beta do currently exist in the blog, creating a category named Beta :: Gamma would also produce the same result, assuming the relationship between Alpha and Beta have already been created.

One question just occurred to me. Does anybody want to be able to create multiple categories at the same level. For example:

Alpha :: Beta :: Gamma, Delta

  • Alpha
    • Beta
      • Gamma
      • Delta

Posted by rayners at June 18, 2004 07:03 AM

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And where would you specify this ? In an entry ? When making a new category ?

Posted by: Arvind [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 18, 2004 07:28 AM

In the MT categories page, where you normally go to create categories.

Posted by: David Raynes [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 18, 2004 07:51 AM

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