Creating Categories Within Categories?

Creating Categories Within Categories?

WhiteCorvid 1223397816|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Woohoo, I have a forum!

Is it possible to make categories within categories?

For example, I have a group called 'Species Discussion' and one of its categories is called 'Parrots'. Is it possible to then create more categories within the one called 'Parrots', such as 'Amazons', 'Macaws', etc.
If so, how?

Thanks for your help. :)

Re: Creating Categories Within Categories?

Helmuti_pdorf 1223405599|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

No, category-nesting is not possible ( for the hard coded categories) .
One article can be located in the "_default:" category ( without any "…:" namespace before the page name)
AND can be attached to MORE but different (!) categories - giving always different URL's.!

What you can use are

A) the soft_categories ( like wikipedia does ) :

Every article - a page in the "default" cat. or "specific:" like your "parrots: cat :) - can have a link to a "category- page" like your

• "parrots:amazons" or
• "parrots:Macaws"
• "parrots:whatever" - where the aricles belongs too.

These are pages holding the "headers" of your categories and shows all "linked" pages inside these groups by using the "module backlinks"
See * http://www.wikidot.com/doc:backlinks-module

B) the tags for indexing your pages:

You can give every article some tags like "parrots amazons Macaws whatever…" . This helps not only in the tag cloud to find some pages on an easy way;
but you can use the "ListPages" module on some "header" pages ( like in the section A) before) with a (fixed ) tag selection like "+parrots,+amazon" which gives you all articles tagged wizth these 2 tags only!

Hope this helps to imagine what is possible?

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Re: Creating Categories Within Categories?

Ed Johnson 1223425452|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

This might help accomplish what you want:

http://community.wikidot.com/howto:create-an-automatic-navigation-without-parent-childs

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Re: Creating Categories Within Categories?

WhiteCorvid 1223444863|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks for the answers guys, I appreciate it. :) At the moment it seems a bit complicated and maybe not worth it. But I may put this in later down the track and will come back to this page for reference. Thanks!