After several readings, I understood that it was preferable to use tag management instead of sub-sub-categories (which does not exist in discourse). Tag management would be useful to replace category management.
So, I am trying to use tags in order to simulate a sub-sub-category.
I found how to create tags and how to regroup them in the [host]/tags page
The target of what I am trying to do would look like what the did at https://experts.feverbee.com/
But I cannot find how to show tags on the home page.
Letâs say I have Category1 with tag A and Category2 with tag A also.
I would like to have âAâ displayed on the home page, so that when I click on it, it would show Category1 and Category2 (simulating a sub-category level).
Can this be done with the admin page ? with some sql code (and if so, is there an interface to write it ? )âŚ
The best page I found from discourse of tag description was this one, but I couldnât find how all this works and can be configured.
Thanks a lot if someone has some information about it !
And no more. Basically, it is 3 levels of categories. Ok, I understood that it cannot be done. So, I try to use tags to do the above structure.
Idea 1 :
Have âbig general tagsâ on the home page, so that âMethod 1â, âMethod 2â and âMethod 3â are tags and not categories.
So, I could have 3 nice big buttons with these names. When I click on âMethod 1â, I would see the top level categories âYour own experiencesâ, âTheoryâ
This is what I exposed above.
Meanwhile, I have read that it is a better practice to use tags at the fine grain level rather than at the top level. So :
Idea 2 (new, not exposed above) :
Top category = Method 1
Sub category = âYour own experiencesâ
Then, I have to find a way to regroup the tagged topics in âYour own experiencesâ to regroup them in âbuttonsâ/sections named âType 1â, âType 2â, etcâŚ
Idea 3 (not exposed above) :
Just like Idea 2, but all the topics are mixed in âYour own experiencesâ, and use the filter tag to search for Type 1, etc⌠Not nice, not user friendly, but at least it is a possible solution.
Whatever the Idea/solution, there is a transversal issue that I hit : how to put automatically a default tag on a new topic ? Example for Ideas 2 and 3 : If a user puts a topic in âYour own experiencesâ but does not tag âType 1â, then, it will be a mess in the âYour own experiencesâ category.
Right, so assuming you make Type 1 and Type 2 tags, then that is pretty standard. What I donât understand is what you think FeverBee are doing. They are simply using top level categories and tags.
FeverBee was towards âIdea1â : having a high level for tags. For my case, from a logic perspective, that does not stand. A high level tag cannot technically give a list of categories. So, I think Idea1 has to be discarded.
I currently have the solution of Idea3 which is working. Itâs not user-friendly, but it works.
The ideal would be to achieve Idea2. When I am inside a sub-category, instead of seeing all the topics in a big âchaoticâ bulk, I would like to see the tags (one line per tag, or one line per tag group, I could adapt the tag logic to both).
For this, I saw that FeverBee has a button âMoreâ on the âChallengesâ part, so it seems possible to create âbuttonsâ to list all topics containing a specific tag. But I donât know if it is possible to to this in the context of a sub-category.
Stated another way : I click on category âMethod 1â. Then I click on sub-category âTheoryâ. Then, I see several buttons. Each item of this list is a tag (or tag group), named âType 1â, âType 2â, âŚ
When the user click on an item of this list, he sees the list of topics containing this tag.
