Strapi plugin categorizer v.2

A plugin that lets you categorize content quickly.

WARNING 2.0.X is ALPHA VERSION

From version 2.0.0 categorizer changes the npm package to strapi-plugin-categorizer, v2 not backward compatible to v1.

Installation

yarn add strapi-plugin-categorizer

yarn build

Guide

1. Create your custom collection type. (Category)
2. Add string field name
3. Add relation hasOne to Category, name the relation field parent.
4. Switch to content manager view, add your categories to collection:

• if no parent assigned, - parent is null, this is a root
• if category has parent, this is a leaf - a subcategory

5. After you created your Categories structure, you have to add two fields to your target collection:

• categories - hasMany relation to Categories
• categoriesCategorizer - the categorizer field, that is going to be used to build relations
  • Name - categoriesCategorizer
  • target - categories
  • targetName - name
  • maxDepth - 4

6. After you set up, you should be able to select relations based on your structure, when you hit save, you should get array of relations in categories field.

FEATURES

• [x] supports multiple categorizer fields per collection
• [x] supports user created collections
• [x] feature: multiple categorizers on one target*
• [x] feature: clear for categorizer dropdown
• [ ] need validation for user entered configuration data

* multiple categorizers on one target - allows to target same relation field from more then one categorizer to handle case where you need additional categories, like Gifts or New.

About

categorizer is a kind of relation builder based on json created in custom field. The categorizer field would let you select filtered relations one by one, then in beforeCreate or beforeUpdate, those json would be used to build actual relations for categories field.

Collection that should have following structure:

 _______________________         _______________________         _______________________
|                       |       |                       |       |                       |
|        "root"         | ____\ |        "child"        | ____\ |    "childs child"     |
|     parent: null      |     / |     parent: "root"    |     / |    parent: "child"    |
|_______________________|       |_______________________|       |_______________________|

Requirements

This plugin tested with Strapi ^4.6.0

@strapi/strapi < 4.11.0 - [email protected] @strapi/strapi >= 4.11.0 - strapi-plugin-categorizer

The plugin will add:

• Custom Field Categorizer
• Lifecycle hooks for contentType that are going to target categorizer json fields.

NOTICE:

1. Categories can have only one parent.
2. Relations are not updated in Content Editor View if updated from lifecycle hook.
3. It's recommended to hide or disable editing for field categories, since on every updated the relations would regenerate from categorizer.

The purpose of this is to be able to do that:

http://localhost:1337/api/cars?filters[categories][title][$eq]=sedan

P.S. This is developed in free time, and this is not magic, so be kind and use it wisely.