Re: category jail vs category jail root
Serio Being wrote:
Can anyone explain the difference between category jail vs category jail root?
Thanks Serio, good question! And i see there's no good documentation that i can find on doc.t.o, which we should fix, on either Perspectives and/or Workspace.
Pref category_jail_root
is set in global preferences, and is used as the "container" category for all your per-perspective category_jail
categories, and means any categories outside that root category will behave as normal, non-jail categories. So an example might be (using the usual educational example of departments, Physics, Chemistry and Biology):
- Top Level Category
- Departments (set as
category_jail_root
)- Physics (set as
category_jail
in the Physics perspective) - Chemistry (set as
category_jail
in the Chemistry perspective) - Biology (set as
category_jail
in the Biology perspective)
- Physics (set as
- School-wide Information
- Term Times (available to all departments)
- Help (available to all departments)
- Contact Info (available to all departments)
- Departments (set as
Does that help?
Sadly this profile http://profiles.tiki.org/Jailroot_Demonstration doesn't actually seem to use the category_jail_root
pref, so not much help there...