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Touch Problem: [edit]
On tablet touch devices I do not have the fine finger control necessary to 'touch' activate the '+' and '-' signs to show or reveal the items contained by a category. I usually end up touching the category name itself, which takes me away from the page I'm on, to the category page. This is not what I want to happen. What I'm interested in is to 'show' items in the category while staying on my current page, and then 'touch' linking to one of the pages in the category, not to the category page itself.
Suggestion: [edit]
Make the category names themselves, in the hierarchical tree, 'link' to showing beneath them the list of items in the category, rather than taking users off to a separate page devoted to that category.
This behaviour could be controlled by a parameter, users could set it to do things the way the extension currently works, or to do things the way I am suggesting here, i.e. to have clicking or finger tapping on category names showing the items under that category while keeping the user on the page they were already viewing.
How to keep CategoryTree stayed opened after clicking any category in sidebar in Vector skin?
When I am going down in one category and subcategories (depth 5-6), after loading the specified category and then hitting the "back" button on the browser , the category tree is folded again. Is there any chance the tree stays opened? Please reply ASAP... How to keep nodes expaneded even after clicking back button in browser.Any code changes to be done in Categorytree extension? It would be great to have the tree expanded to the current page after clicking any article , so that the users can get a quick impression about the location of the current article in the overall context.
When I use <categorytree namespaces="-" showcount="on" depth="0"> I'm getting a full page count of all pages in the category instead of just the ones that are listed when I click on the [+]. Am I not passing all of the parameters right, or is this a known issue?
We are using the category tree on a page to allow users to "browse" for a Case via Jurisdiction. We have added two namespaces to our wiki because we did have some pages with identical names. The two new namespaces are "Case" and "Statute". For this page we want the tree to show all of the categories and subcategories and then all of the pages in the namespace Case in those categories or subcategories. We do not want to see anything in the main namespace or the Statute namespace.
Code for the tree on this page:
<categorytree mode=pages showcount=on namespace= Case>State</categorytree> <categorytree mode=pages showcount=on namespace= Case>Federal</categorytree>
This is what we would like to see happen:
(Parent Category: Jurisdiction)
State --> California --> People v. John Doe (2012)
Federal --> Supreme Court --> Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
This is what does happen:
State (4) --> California (17) --> nothing found
Federal (9) --> Supreme Court (2) --> nothing found
Using the above code we see the categories and subcategories, items in the main namespace but none of the pages in the namespace "case". The count next to each category and subcategory is correct, it reflects all of the pages within including those pages in the "Case" namespace. If you click on something that we know has pages in the Case namespace you see "nothing found"
Here are the results from some trial and error:
namespace= case --> I see categories, subcategories, items in the main namespace, nothing in the case namespace
namespace= statute --> I see categories, subcategories, items in the main namespace, nothing in the Statute namespace
namespaces= case, category --> see everything in all namespaces (category, main namespace, statute and case)
namespaces = statute, category --> see everything in all namespaces (category, main namespace, statute and case)
namespaces= case, statute --> see everything in all namespaces (category, main namespace, statute and case)
I believe the issue may exist beyond the category tree (I have a feeling it might be in the configuration somewhere but have no idea where) because I just went to the categories page, clicked on the (+) on one of the categories and saw "nothing found" but when I clicked to open the subcategory I saw all of the files (the files are only in the Case or Statute namespace)
Another question: Not that important but I figured I would ask: Is there a way to have the category tree list certain categories but stop at a certain level showing subcategories:
Ex. Jurisdiction (main category)
--State
---California ("Case" namespace pages are here)
----Statute
-----Penal Code
If the pages I want are under California, anyway to stop if from showing Statute, Penal Code, etc.? (The goal of the page is to have someone "browse" for cases from x, y, or z state)
Thank you in advance!
Can't check now, but did you try namespace id/number rather than name?
The directions for use of this extension specifically state: "namespaces: a list of namespaces from which pages should be shown in the tree (since rev:36864, July 2008). The entries in the list must be namespace names, separated by spaces. The main namespaces can be represented by "-" or "0". This overrides the mode option." Also, I notice that you didn't wrap your arguments in quotes and you used commas. Try namespace="case" - namespace="statue" - namespace="case category" - namespace="statue category" - namespace="case statue" instead.
After an upgrade to 1.20.2, I found an incompatibility between Extension:CSS and Extension:CategoryTree. If there is a {{#css: ... }} function in a page, the tree from Extension:CategoryTree won't display. It worked whith Extension:CSS v 1.0.7 and a previous version of Extension:CategoryTree (not numered...).
I haven't seen anything specific to CategoryTree about CSS, but I have found using {{#css: }} on pages tends to kill all the javascript, and since CategoryTree is a javascript thing, is it possible that's the issue, or is this something else?
I haven't really looked into it much on account of explosions elsewhere. Massive explosions.
Not a techie guy so my question is rather than simple: is it possible to replace the text from the system messages with images?
More specific, the problem seems to be that when MediaWiki:Categorytree-member-num (or mediawiki:categorytree-num-xxx) is edited, it ignores any wiki code so it donesn't have any effect. Example:
$1 [[File:IconForPage.png|16px]]
will render as it is, with no image at all. HTML tags are ignored too.
With no wiki code or html working, I ran out of ideas. I'd like to know if there is a way to sort this out...?
Thanks in advance.
When I finished installing the extension (not working for me, yet), I've noticed that the Special:Version page, where I supposed to see the version of the extension, is now empty and there is no extension. If I delete the require_once line of the extension, it's all back to normal.
I didn't see anything wrong with permissions or in the log. Does anybody know what could cause this or where I was wrong?
Thanks!
The CategoryTree extension page defines that this extension is available to Mediawiki V 1.13.
Does it works with more recent mediawiki updates such as v1.20?
Thanks
Heiya, I would guess so. I just changed the info box a bit to make this more clear. Since Wikimedia is using this extensions on their wikis and they are already on the MW 1.21 branch it should definitely work for MW 1.20. Cheers
It's not working here on 1.21, try it out at Special:CategoryTree/Top_level.
Hello, I have only a small hierarchy and I would like that the categorytree is initially fully expanded including pages and possibly subpages. Because of this I use the "depth" parameter.
Here an example of the following hierarchy: main_category->programming_category->ada_page
main_category->programming_category->c_page
<categorytree hideroot="on" mode="pages" depth="5">main_category</categorytree>
But the cateory tree only initially shows the categories, i.e. "programming_category" The pages are not shown initially. But if I manually click on the "+" left to "programming_category" then the pages are shown.
What do I have to do to initially expand "pages/subpages"? Why is the depth parameter only relating to categories and not to pages?
I'm using a 1.19 mediawiki and the latest stable version of the categorytree extension.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Dirk
I try to view a tree of categories, nothing works. I have followed all the instructions; I can go to Special:CategoryTree but when I enter a category name, it doesn't exist.
Pages are created for all categories.
Help... Any help...
I'm hosted on HostGator using these versions: MediaWiki v1.20.0 PHP v5.3.15 (cgi-fcgi) MySQL v5.5.23-55
I downloaded CategoryTree just today as instructed.
I am using Strict Standards: Declaration of CategoryTreeCategoryViewer::addSubcategoryObject() should be compatible with that of CategoryViewer::addSubcategoryObject() in C:\PlayNet\Wiki4Playout\extensions\CategoryTree\CategoryPageSubclass.php on line 14 Catchable fatal error: Argument 2 passed to CategoryViewer::__construct() must implement interface IContextSource, null given, called in C:\PlayNet\Wiki4Playout\extensions\CategoryTree\CategoryPageSubclass.php on line 9 and defined in C:\PlayNet\Wiki4Playout\includes\CategoryViewer.php on line 78
Darn, so it was sort of a waste of time for me to install it then? I just came here looking for help to get it working, but if it's not working for more recent Mediawiki installations, then there's no real point in continuing with it.
I get version from July 2010 and that works almost! In order to makes click on categ and sub categ working I add on CategoryPageSubclass.php on class CategoryTreeCategoryPage in function closeShowCategory a test for on both variables $from and $until then I let call of new CategoryTreeCategoryViewer. but it lets destruction of css style and sidebar is not working also anymore
I also get the version 75d974a and it work in any page with mediawiki 1.20.2, but not into sidebar. I've tries to debug it, but didn't find the problem. Anyone have an idea where to look at ?
Same here:
- the default current (Dec 11 2012 snapshot) doesn't work at all
- Version 75d974a works, but not in the sidebar.
MediaWiki 1.20.2 PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.18 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.1.66-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
However:
- An old version I used with 1.18.x version does work :) But I can't figure out the version number..
Can you post it somewhere ... maybe a diff will make me find how to make it work with sidebar
I am new to using GIT and older versions, can someone help direct me how to download the older 75d974a version? Thanks
You can use the link from Axanon (talk) on the 3 décembre 2012 à 22:45 just above. Then click on snapshot link on the opened page
Why should $wgCategoryTreeDefaultMode default to CT_MODE_CATEGORIES? Why not CT_MODE_ALL?
Is there some way to reverse the order of the items? We use our internal wiki to record meeting minutes, so a category will have articles with names using the <topic> minutes yyyy-mm-dd pattern (using mode=pages). CategoryTree sorts alphanumerically in ascending order, but I'd like an option so that the most recent meeting is listed first, not last. thanks
In case there is no "reverse order" feature in the CategoryTree extension, I suggest to use {{DEFAULTSORT:sortkey}} in all your meeting minutes articles (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words for more details). For instance, add {{DEFAULTSORT:999}} in a new meeting minutes and add {{DEFAULTSORT:998}} in the next meeting minutes and so on... Of course, you have an extra work for previous meeting minutes articles but for new meeting minutes, it should not be so much work :)
Note that DEFAULTSORT works for both articles and categories so I do not use DEFAULTCATEGORYSORT (MediaWiki 1.17). Hope it helps :-)
The download a snapshot is not downloading anything. It reports this error message: "Invalid response from Extension Distributor remote client."
Don't know if it's supposed to work this way, but the Special:Categories page lists categories and subcategories. When a category is added to another category page to convert the category to a subcategory, I need it to disappear from the Special:Categories page. It's confusing to see subcategories appear in the same list as the top level categories.
Is my setting wrong, or is this the default setting? If this is the norm, is it possible to hide subcategories on the Special:Categories page?
No. Subcategories are categories.
In my wiki we use the category tree extension dynamically in a few pages to have convenient links to other pages. This means when people create new pages, all they have to do is add the appropriate category to their page and then the link will show up automatically on the master page. This saves our users time as they don't have to worry about manually adding links or link rot.
Unfortunately pages that a linked to in this way do not count under 'what links here' and therefore also show up on the orphaned page list. This makes it more difficult for the wiki admins to see if a particular page is dead/cruft that can be deleted (as usually pages with no links to them are) because it may actually be a valuable page that is only linked to via a the category tree expansion.
Is it possible for this extension to have this functionality added? I guess it would need to be configurable, as not all wikis may want this behaviour by default.
No, it's not possible.
Since the CategoryTree extension can display all Subcategories and pages within one Category, I want to remove these 2 listings, that are created automatically with the creation of a category page, from the page. It just looks too confusing.
Is this possible?
Not that I know. You could look for some HTML class which you can alter in your MediaWiki:Common.css to hide those sections.
Missing MediaWiki:categorytree.
It became necessary to store(or memorize?) opened in tree categories and after move to another page we should open those categories. Other words - we are opening several categories in the tree, then we click several times at various articles and we should see the tree in the same form (those several categories should be still opened).
What the easiest way to do it? Big thx for help!
PS: sorry for my pure english
categorytree is always dynamic, I don't think that's possible.
Seems to be similar with topic below... but different in details.
For the first 3~4 times of refreshing a category page after starting up a new browser, the [+] sign does not show up. After more retry of refreshing the page, the [+] show up evetually.
Both(with [+] and without [+]) HTML codes are exactly the same. So, I guess the browser fails to show the [+] sign.
What can affect the web browser showing the [+] sign?
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