with one switch, a system administrator can now disable the category support

(no searching for categories, no getting communities by category,
no category display on community profile, no changing a community's category)

scripts/comm/admin_menu.js

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 // 
 // The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Eric J. Bowersox <erbo@silcom.com>,
 // for Silverwrist Design Studios.  Portions created by Eric J. Bowersox are
-// Copyright (C) 2001 Eric J. Bowersox/Silverwrist Design Studios.  All Rights Reserved.
+// Copyright (C) 2001-02 Eric J. Bowersox/Silverwrist Design Studios.  All Rights Reserved.
 // 
 // Contributor(s): 
 
@@ -43,4 +43,6 @@ menu = rinput.getMenu("community.admin",vars);
 // build a view around it and return it
 rc = new MenuView(menu);
 rc.menuSelector = Content.MENU_SELECTOR_COMMUNITY;
+if (rinput.engine.useCategories())
+  rc.define("USECAT");
 vlib.output(rc);

scripts/find.js

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 // 
 // The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Eric J. Bowersox <erbo@silcom.com>,
 // for Silverwrist Design Studios.  Portions created by Eric J. Bowersox are
-// Copyright (C) 2001 Eric J. Bowersox/Silverwrist Design Studios.  All Rights Reserved.
+// Copyright (C) 2001-02 Eric J. Bowersox/Silverwrist Design Studios.  All Rights Reserved.
 // 
 // Contributor(s): 
 
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ if (rinput.hasParameter("disp"))
 
   } // end if
 
+  if ((disp==FindView.FD_CATEGORIES) && !(rinput.engine.useCategories()))
+  { // the display parameter is not correct
+    vlib.output(new ErrorBox(null,"Invalid display parameter.","top.js.vs"));
+    vlib.done();
+
+  } // end if
+
   // save off the session attribute
   rinput.setSessionAttribute(FindView.DISPLAY_PARAM_ATTRIBUTE,new java.lang.Integer(disp));
 
@@ -107,9 +114,14 @@ try
 
   if (disp==FindView.FD_COMMUNITIES)
   { // load the category ID and field parameters
-    catid = rinput.getParameterInt("cat",-1);
-    if (!(rinput.engine.isValidCategoryID(catid)))
-      throw new ValidationException("The category ID parameter is not valid.");
+    if (rinput.engine.useCategories())
+    { // don't try to get the category unless we support such a thing
+      catid = rinput.getParameterInt("cat",-1);
+      if (!(rinput.engine.isValidCategoryID(catid)))
+        throw new ValidationException("The category ID parameter is not valid.");
+
+    } // end if
+
     x = rinput.getParameterInt("field",SearchMode.FIELD_COMMUNITY_NAME);
     if ((x!=SearchMode.FIELD_COMMUNITY_NAME) && (x!=SearchMode.FIELD_COMMUNITY_SYNOPSIS))
       throw new ValidationException("The search field parameter is not valid.");
@@ -153,7 +165,7 @@ try
   // run the actual search!
   if (disp==FindView.FD_COMMUNITIES)
   { // need to work it differently if there's a category ID
-    if (catid>=0)
+    if (rinput.engine.useCategories() && (catid>=0))
     { // set up the category
       view.category = rinput.user.getCategoryDescriptor(catid);
       if (view.category.categoryID>=0)

scripts/sysadmin/global.js

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 // 
 // The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Eric J. Bowersox <erbo@silcom.com>,
 // for Silverwrist Design Studios.  Portions created by Eric J. Bowersox are
-// Copyright (C) 2001 Eric J. Bowersox/Silverwrist Design Studios.  All Rights Reserved.
+// Copyright (C) 2001-02 Eric J. Bowersox/Silverwrist Design Studios.  All Rights Reserved.
 // 
 // Contributor(s): 
 
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ if ("GET"==rinput.verb)
     dlg.setValue("conf_mbrs",props.conferenceMembersPerPage);
     if (props.displayPostPictures)
       dlg.setValue("pic_in_post",1);
+    if (props.disableCategories)
+      dlg.setValue("no_cats",1);
 
     rc = dlg;
 
@@ -100,6 +102,7 @@ if (op=="update")
     props.oldPostsAtTop = dlg.getValue("old_posts").intValue();
     props.conferenceMembersPerPage = dlg.getValue("conf_mbrs").intValue();
     props.displayPostPictures = dlg.getValue("pic_in_post").booleanValue();
+    props.disableCategories = dlg.getValue("no_cats").booleanValue();
     adm.properties = props;
 
     // done - bounce back to the menu