Is ther anyway to go back to the older category maintenance screen. I am on V 5.3.5. This screen is VERY hard to work with if you get very many categories.

The strange thing is that it was supposed to help with larger sets of categories. I'll have to rethink this again then. The problem with the old screen is that Ajax updates with large category sets took so long that it became impractical. So the new screen limits those Ajax calls.

The fallback is to go for a regular postback solution. So on every click the screen posts back to the server and refreshes. This is the approach in most of the DNN software (e.g. the "pages" admin page in DNN).

For now, if you want the old screen back, you can try the following: Rename desktopmodules/bring2mind/dmx/admin/categoriesold.ascx to categories.ascx (and remove the categories.ascx that was there).

Peter

Thanks Peter, I tried the renaming the categoriesold.ascx.

It didn't really help. It seemed ok until a change was made (ie added another subcategory), then the left Nav got all confused. -- the DB was actually correct though.

The biggest problem with the new version is the drag and drop is the ONLY way to move catgories or subcategories. Not sure if my version of IE (IE 8) or something else but the alignment of the cursor and the catgery being dragged is WAY off and nearly impossible to use. I am manually doing category maintenance nor for my client until I can provide something better.

Thoughts:
1) Add category -- simliar to add a page in DNN, dropdownlist of possible parent pages or at root level
2) Move a category/subcategory ==> to a dropdownlist of target categories (moves all subcategories/document classifications with it).

Hi Dan,

I'll think of something for DMX 6. The real difficulty is to find something that will work both for large and for small data sets. Maybe I'll even add multiple screens so users can choose.

Peter