If some characters (like ".") are used in the category title, the actual category that's created isn't viewable because "." isn't rewritten correctly.
As some sites allow users (moderators) to suggest or even add categories manually there's some mechanism needed to prevent them from adding categories that can't be viewed.
Maybe: An extra option for purely the category title field in which symbols can be indicated that aren't allowed. By default it would be filled with the same symbols that can't be rewritten.
Note: - Not rewriting these categories may also be an option, as displaying by ID naturally does work. - A directory with a "." does work (the "." is simply removed).
I'm talking about not accepting a suggested category (returning an error message) if a category title contains a character that can't be rewritten or used in a directory name. This would prevent admin's from ending up with all kinds of unusable or unviewable categories.
The "." is an example of one character that right now can be inputted in category title's, but isn't usable.
Note: This wasn't intended as a bug report, not sure why this post is in this forum.
Personally I always want to accept categories with such characters... I have a / in one of my forum names at philosophy forums, and I'm quite content to simply have it rewrite that forum as /10/ instead of /Community / Off Topic. So why should they be rejected? If it does something bad with the attachments tree then that should be fixed so it'll do like rewriting does.
It doesn't seem to work like that yet though? I used "." in a category name and that caused the category to become unviewable. It didn't use the number for rewriting, but simply returned a couldn't show page error.
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If some characters (like ".") are used in the category title, the actual category that's created isn't viewable because "." isn't rewritten correctly.
As some sites allow users (moderators) to suggest or even add categories manually there's some mechanism needed to prevent them from adding categories that can't be viewed.
Maybe: An extra option for purely the category title field in which symbols can be indicated that aren't allowed. By default it would be filled with the same symbols that can't be rewritten.
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- Not rewriting these categories may also be an option, as displaying by ID naturally does work.
- A directory with a "." does work (the "." is simply removed).
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You mention the attachment tree in one spot, rewriting in others. What are you talking about?
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I'm talking about not accepting a suggested category (returning an error message) if a category title contains a character that can't be rewritten or used in a directory name. This would prevent admin's from ending up with all kinds of unusable or unviewable categories.
The "." is an example of one character that right now can be inputted in category title's, but isn't usable.
Note: This wasn't intended as a bug report, not sure why this post is in this forum.
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Personally I always want to accept categories with such characters... I have a / in one of my forum names at philosophy forums, and I'm quite content to simply have it rewrite that forum as /10/ instead of /Community / Off Topic. So why should they be rejected? If it does something bad with the attachments tree then that should be fixed so it'll do like rewriting does.
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That would definitely be preferable.
It doesn't seem to work like that yet though? I used "." in a category name and that caused the category to become unviewable. It didn't use the number for rewriting, but simply returned a couldn't show page error.