[Kentico 8] How to add a custom field on CMS.Categories

Victor Hugo Garcia asked on April 25, 2014 16:13

Hello friends,

I'm having a small issue trying to add a custom field to system categories, I need to store a value in a field by using custom settings or some how in the category.

I went to Modules -> Categories -> Edit -> User Interface there all buttons are disabled and it says: Cannot edit anything.

Is there any other missing step I'm missing? I also tried Modules -> Categories -> Classes -> Alternative Form and it does not appear neither when adding a new category.

Any help is always welcome.

Thanks

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Brenden Kehren answered on April 25, 2014 22:29

The short answer is you can't without making manual database changes. I'd give the long answer but not sure I'd want to since it really isn't best practice to hack it. What is this custom field for? Every document or just for all categories?

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Filip Ligač answered on May 26, 2014 00:08

Brenden is basically right. If you could describe what this custom field would be for, maybe we could find a workaround which would be suitable for you.

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Joel Dahlin answered on February 1, 2016 22:44

I have this same need. My scenario is the client wants to have a list of categories with an image for the category. I'd like to give them a media selection control to select the image.

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Pam Reid answered on September 19, 2016 21:17

Was there ever any additional info on this? Similar to Joel's request, we also have a client that would like to associate colors with categories for use with the calendar display.

Thanks, Pam

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