Category page editable like an article
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Simon Heide
the category page should be fully configurable / editable like a normal article. So you can offer the user a formatted introduction, additional links, images, etc. - everything that a normal article enables. (Category-pages in this way - like article-pages are offered by many other platforms, e.g. various wikis, knowlegdeowl or confluence.)
In this context it is also important that the search finds the category page. We are missing that at the moment too. but the feature request already exists?
Currently you can only define a "category description". This appears on the "landing page" of the category and below that all subordinate categories and articles are automatically listed - that's good and the automatic listing should also be kept (below or elsewhere). Maybe even switchable (show / don`t show the automatic list).
Emil Hajric
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Simon Heide
We tried that with customization too (same title of article and category, etc.) - but this leads to other problems, as Sharon explained bevor. this customization is therefore not a good work around.
Tasha Williams
agree
Cindy Smith
Agree
Sharon Chester
Absolutely agree with this. Even just the category description being an editable field when creating or editing a category would be a massive help. We're getting into some serious pieces of our design, but realizing we need to commit to category descriptions now or edit them later in a difficult way is a hard decision to make.
Sharon Chester
A solution like this was put into place for us, but now the "category-control article" is showing up in search results and navigation along with the regular articles. Already mentioned in a separate request, but to be fully functional, these special article types need a way to be excluded from those.
Sharon Chester
As an update, we had to delete all our category-control articles. Since they appeared in search results and navigation, users opened them and we got several complaints about “empty” articles. Just wasn’t a complete solution, since it caused other problems.
Alexey Denisov
I know that it is availabe via customization, but it would be great to be able to edit on your own.