Restriction in Maximum Categories in Free edition or bug?

[David]

We have come up with a plan to support more categories in a reasonably efficient manner. But it will take a few days of work to implement and test, as it effects all the scripts and the indexer. We can't just stick the old V5 code back in as the index file structure has totally changed. Unfortunately Christmas is upon us and we won't get a chance to implement it until around the middle of Jan.

In the meantime you might want to fall back to V5, or use custom meta tags where it makes sense to do so.

We are still very interested to hear from other user that this might impact.

[cardiogr]

Thank you for your answer

Custom meta tags is a nice feature, but if you have 1.000.000 webpages then it is difficult to start writing custom metatags.
I was using Folders to organize my pages into small categories, and then I was organizing these small categories into larger categories to allow many search criteria.
This made the whole process much more flexible, because you can change the organization of categories and subcategories very easily by redefining which subcategories are included in every category..

At least it would be very helpful if you could add an option to allow more than 31 categories for people needing this feature.

If you deselect "Search in Multiple Categories" then it is like going back to Version 4 where you could only search in one Category at a time.

Please bring back this feature.

Thank you

[David]

With the introduction of custom meta fields (which are like categories in some ways, but more flexible), we changed the way we stored category data in the index to make it much more efficient (smaller index and faster searching). The downside is that if you have the "Allow searching in multiple categories" feature turned on then you're restricted to 31 categories. If you don't have "Allow searching in multiple categories" turned on you can have 65,000 categories.

We didn't expect this to be an issue as we thought very few people would need more than 32 & multiple categories. And some of those people could use custom meta tags instead.

But maybe we underestimated the number of people this might effect. We'll discuss the issue internally tomorrow and decide if the extra efficiency justifies the restriction.

We are aware of 1 other customer this effects. Any comments from other users who might be impacted would also be of interest.

[cardiogr]

I bought the enterprise edition and the problem continues.
The application does not allow to save more than 31 categories.
If you add a 32nd category it is added but not saved.

Any solution for this problem?

Thank you

[cardiogr]

I am a Version 5 Enterprise User.
Before buying V6 , I tried the free edition, I tried to import my Categories (which are more than 100) and I noticed that the application displays only a few of them.
Is there any restriction in the free edition (which is not described in the comparison table) or is this a bug?

Thank you