# What's the best approach to access category specific settings?

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**Created:** [08.Март.2016 08:51:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-best-approach-to-access-category-specific-settings/40728 "2016-03-08T08:51:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [08.Март.2016 10:34:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-best-approach-to-access-category-specific-settings/40728/3 "2016-03-08T10:34:44Z")

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What settings do you have on each category that you need posted down? Is this simply an extra boolean. Why not add something to site serializer that lists the category ids that meet the condition … or something like that?

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