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angelic_venus

Mark, on this install of Vanilla (on lussumo), on the dropdowns for category selection... above the "Stickies" category, there is a "---" marker which is not selectable (see the categories dropdown at the top of the panel to the left, or at the top of form when creating a new discussion). Is this hardcoded, or an extension not on the installed extensions list, or some feature I didn't know about?

edit: seems to have an ID of -1, *tries adding a category with ID -1 to his local install*

Adam.

ithcy

i see no such ---

*adjusts goggles

angelic_venus

Really? Above the Stickies category? Hold on...

Adam.

angelic_venus

, que?

edit: must be a hack of some sort, http://lussumo.com/community/?CategoryID=-1 that is the --- category on this forum, you can see it puts the Categories dropdown to have the --- selected on the left. I can reproduce on my forum, that by setting a category to have an id of -1, it will not display a page like the link I just provided on this forum... so I imagine this vanilla just has some code to tell the drop down that it should not let it be selectable.

bshultz

'---' in this case is used as a divider between unblocked (top) and blocked (bottom) categories.

In the Category Jumper extension, it's called in default.php on line 47:
$Select->AddOption('-1', '---', " disabled=\"true\"");

As well as in library/Vanilla/Vanilla.Control.(Comment|Discussion)Form.php.

Stash

I only see this (fx2.0.0.6, WinVista):

angelic_venus

Very strange indeed. The only reason that I am asking, is that one of the extensions I am planning, will involve categories that do not appear on the categories list as a category, but as a sub header... I thought I might be able to manipulate this code to help me.

*ponder ponder ponder*

Thanks for pointing me at the code, bshultz.

Adam.

Mark

bshultz is correct. If you go to the category page and block a few categories, and then go back to the discussion page, the ones you blocked will appear below the dashed line. It's a hard-coded thing in the extension, I think.

angelic_venus

Okay, this makes sense... I forgot I blocked those two categories. Thanks Mark.

Adam.

Stash

Ahhhhhhhhhh, I see. I've never blocked any cats, that'll be why :D Perhaps a better way would be to have something styled bold such as "Blocked Categories" instead of the --------?

Mark

Yeah, that's definitely a better idea...