Event Calendar Admin's Manual

4. Managing Categories

4.2. Managing Category Groups

As you know, you may have any number of Event Calendars in a conversation. The categories and category groups being attached to a calendar, you'll have to go to the properties editor for the calendar whose categories you want to edit:

Go to:

"yourSite/admin/conversations/yourSite/structure$path=yourSite%2FyourCalendar"

In the second section, "2. Calendar Attributes", locate "Categories". You'll see a link link reading Edit Category Groups. Click on it (or click on "new window" to open it in a new window).

This will take you to the "Edit Category Groups" screen.

This screen has four main parts:

1. Choose Category Group To Edit
2. Create New Category Group
3. Rename Category Groups
4. Delete Category Groups

Note: The link reading "Back to page's properties" at the top of the window will bring you back to your calendar's properties screen. You may also click on "new window" to open this screen in a new window.

Choose Category Group To Edit

Click on the name of a Category Group to edit its Categories.

Note: If you move your cursor over one of these links and look at the url in your browser's status bar, you'll see that it ends with "categoryGroupId=000000N" (where N is 1, 2, etc). This is the unique identifier of this Category Group.

The Categories from the Category Group that has the lower ID (whatever its name) will be displayed in calendar views as colored backgrounds (using the color and text attributes of the category - see Managing Categories). The Categories in other Category Groups will be displayed with their icon, as defined in the icon attribute of the category (see Managing Categories).

Create New Category Group

From here you may create a new Category Group.

1. Enter the name of the new Category Group in the "Name" text field
2. If you want the new Category Group to be a duplicate of an existing Category Group, select this group in the "Based On" popup menu. Note that all the Category Groups in this conversation will be listed here, so you can duplicate a group from another calendar.
3. Click on Create Category Group

That's it. The page will reload with a confirmation message, and you'll see your new Category Group listed in the first section.

Note: When a category group from another calendar is displayed in the "Based On" popup menu, the name of its parent folder is shown too, and this path in inclosed in braces. For example: "[yourSite/yourOtherCalendar] Priority" is the Priority group in yourOtherCalendar. When a group is in the current calendar, only its name is displayed.

Rename Category Groups

This section allows you to rename one or more Category Groups.

1. Enter the new name of each Category Group to rename in its text field
2. Click on Submit Changes

That's it. The page will reload with a confirmation (or an error) message.

Note: Each Category Group has a unique identifier that cannot be changed (you can see it in the status bar of your browser if you move your cursor over the group's name in the first section). If you use the groupName parameter rather than the groupId parameter in your eventCategorySelector macro calls, you'll have to edit your macro calls as result of renaming your groups (see Displaying Categories. If you use the groupId, you won't have anything to change.

Delete Category Groups

From here you can delete one or more Category Groups.

1. Check the checkbox of every group to delete
2. Click on Delete Checked Groups
3. You'll be prompted to confirm. Click Yes

That's it. The page will reload with a confirmation message.

Note that you may have to edit your template to remove or modify your eventCategorySelector macro calls (see Displaying Categories).

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