Reference:BlueSpiceCategoryManager

Extension: BlueSpiceCategoryManager

Overview
Description:	Show all categories of the wiki and its structuring at a glance Visual tool to manage categories
State:	stable	Dependency:	BlueSpice
Developer:	HalloWelt	License:	GPL-3.0-onlyProperty "BSExtensionInfoLicense" (as page type) with input value "</br>GPL-3.0-only" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.
Type:	BlueSpice	Category:	Content Structuring
Edition:	BlueSpice pro, BlueSpice Farm, BlueSpice Cloud
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Features

Description

Administration

CategoryManager is an administration interface for categories.

With category management, you will see all categories of the wiki and its structuring at a glance.

You can add new categories, move or delete them in a tree structure.

Usage / Features

• Overview of all categories.
• Quickly create and assign a new category page.
• Change the category tree

by

• using drag & drop.
• Delete a category without editing the individual Wiki articles

Where can I find CategoryManager?

CategoryManager is a special page. You will find the category management administration interface in the main menu under "Global Actions" in the "Administration" area (visible only to admins).

How do I use CategoryManager?

Create a new category

To create a new category, click the green "Add" button above the list. You can enter the name of the new category using an input field. This is then sorted into the alphabetical folder of the list. 

Move Category Moving a category works in category management using the drag-and-drop principle. For example, if you want to add a category to another category, drag the category to the destination folder with the mouse.

Delete category

To remove a category, select it and click the red "remove" button above the list.

This action deletes both the corresponding category page and removes the category's assignments to the wiki articles.

The BlueSpice extension CategoryManager is part of BlueSpice pro. It can also be purchased as an individual extension.

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• Navigation item to the page Special:Category_manager.

Technical Information

This information applies to BlueSpice 3 . Technical details for BlueSpice cloud can differ in some cases.

Requirements

• MediaWiki: 1.31.0

• BlueSpiceFoundation: *

Integrates into

• BlueSpiceExtendedStatistics

Special pages

• BlueSpiceCategoryManager

Permissions

Name	Description	Role
categorymanager-viewspecialpage	Access to the special page Special:BlueSpiceCategoryManager	admin, editor, maintenanceadmin, structuremanager