Edit a category

Informations

Move

If the category is virtual, you can move it. Moving a category means changing its parent category.

Options

You can also manage these options with "Properties" management screen (screens Upload, Comments, Lock, Public/Private, Representative available from Administration, Categories, Properties).

Sort order

Choose if the default sort order will be used.

Indicate if this sort order will be applied to subcategories.

Select specific sort by columns to use with this category.

(*)Take care and test it your self can give unpredictable results.

Representant

The representant of the category is the thumbnail displayed to represent the category on main page (category.php) when a category contains only sub-categories (just as the root category).

There are 4 ways to set the representative picture of a category :

The representation depends on configuration parameter allow_random_representative (see include/config_default.inc.php).

In default mode (allow_random_representative set to false) each category containing at least one element is represented by a fixed element. Once set (at category creation), the representative changes only when an administrator ask for it. If the representant is not appropriate, you can ask to Find a new representant by random.

If configuration parameter allow_random_representative is set to true, a category containing elements can have no fixed representant. Just use Delete representant button.

If the category contains no element (but only sub-categories) it can be represented by any element thanks to screen Modify informations about a picture. The only option on the current screen is to Delete representant button, after using this button, no representant option to set anymore.

Link all category elements to a new category

Link all category elements to some existing categories

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