Hi David,
Ralf, All,
Is there a way I can make categories "inactive" or "hide" them from the
category list? We have had various attorneys that have left the office and
their categories still exist in egw. I want to “hide” the categories or make
them inactive so they no longer show in the category list.
I though this would be better than just "deleting" the categories. Truth is
I don’t know what “deleting” the categories will do to the mysql table
records. Would it just leave the records for past events “uncategorized?”
I have looked and I find no way to make the global categories "inactive" or
“hidden”. Does such a feature exist? For historical reasons, it make sense to
know who a contact or event was associated with, but since they categories
will never be used again, I need a way to hide them.
If no way exists to hide a global category, what is the best way to delete
categories from the while making sure the mysql tables are not messed up? Add
some “archive” or “obsolete” category name and transfer all records for the
categories I want to delete to this “catch-all” category for retired categories?
It may be worth looking into adding this feature if it doesn't already
exist. Business grow and change and as they do, categories naturally become
obsolete. Managing the category list is imperative for long term use. Just
about every financial package I’ve ever seen come with the ability to make
accounts and categories inactive. It would make egw that much more robust to
build a bit of flexibility into category management.
What say the experts on how to handle the current categories I have that
are obsolete?
There’s no such thing (hiding a category) implemented. Deleteting them
does no harm, beside loosing the information.
You could also try making these global categories into personal one, of
the person who used them. Thought that only works on database level, by
setting cat_owner to the account_id of the user.
Ralf
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