Hello! Some colleagues and me are currently starting a page for my studies, where we want to make one category for each subject. Thus we have to add many many categories. Is there any possibility to automate this like giving Discourse a list with all names for the categories to add? I am really tha…

We have a guide for doing bulk options from the command line, including exporting/importing categories: [image] Administrative Bulk Operations Self-Hosting Below you will find a collection of bulk operations that can be initiated from the command line. You wil…

Thanks for your reply, I have seen this page. I only see the possibility to import categories from a category file, is this right? Furthermore it appears to be quite difficult to export this file, manually add all categories and re-import it (or is this file different to the category part of the fil…

You’ll want a script that does something like Category.create(title: "hello".....) A bunch of times, it perhaps reads from a csv or something. You can type just the above with no arguments to get a hint.

You will probably be better off with tags than categories.. see [image] It’s Time We Talked About Tags Consider the typical sections of a daily newspaper: Arts, Sports, Business, Travel, Local, and World. Any given article belongs to just one of those sections, and the content in each s…

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You will probably be better off with tags than categories.. see

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