Edit your category items or add new ones from this screen.
Edit your category items or add new ones from this screen.
Tip
Assigning a group to a category is a very good way to manage access rights for your event submissions. Use groups to create maintainers for your different categories.
To access this screen use: Components → JEM → Add Category or by clicking a category in the overview
Save: Saves the Category and returns to the current view.
Save & Close: Saves the Category and returns to the categories list.
Close: Cancels this operation, closes the Edit screen and returns to the categories list.
Category: Enter or edit (if needed) the title of the category here.
Alias: Enter or edit (if needed) the alias of the category here. The alias is used in the url, only use url safe characters here. Leave this field blank if you want JEM to create it automatically.
Published: Select Yes to publish this category or No to unpublish. Published categories are displayed on the Frontend and are able to have events assigned to them.
Text field: Enter or edit (if needed) the description for the category.
Access: This is the user access level. Public, Registered or Special. Events within a category are only accessible at the same or above the selected level.
Group: Select a group to assign it to the category. Only members of this group will be able to assign events to this category.
Image: Select an image for this Category, or upload one.
Color: Select a display color Category, used in the Calendar.
Parent: Select the parent category. The root category is used only as the top of the tree; normal categories should usually be placed below it or below another visible category.
Type: Assign an optional Category type. Only types configured for Categories are shown. Default: no type.
Path: Read-only category path generated from the category alias and its parents.
Email(s): Optional comma-separated email addresses that can receive notifications when an event is created or edited in this category.
Send email to user of this Access Level: Sends category notification email to users belonging to the configured ACL groups when an event is created or modified. Default: No.
Metadata information: Enter or edit (if needed) the Meta Description and the Meta Keywords of the category here.
ID: Read-only database identifier. New categories use 0 until they are saved.
Created by / Created date: Stores the user and date for the first creation of the category.
Modified by / Modified date: Read-only information updated after later edits.
Language: Optional content language. Default: All.
Meta Keywords: Optional comma-separated words or phrases for metadata output.
Meta Description: Optional short summary for metadata output.
Group Manager: Add/Edit Groups