How to make some categories not selectable?

Hi all,

I am using FLEXIcontent version 2.0.0 RC9 (r1514) on J2.5.7.

I want any front-end users to create items only for last level of categories.
Thus, They will not be able to select categories except last level on item submission/edit form.
In the form, category drop-down shows all of specified category tree but top and middle level of categories will be grey out and only last level will be selectable.
Which file do I have to override?

Regards

in menu option of submission you can override categorie selectable

Micker, Thanks for your reply.

I know that there is an option to select categories to show on Item submission form. If category is with 2 levels then no problem.

For example, 3 level category:
Used
|_ car
|_ BMW ->selectable
|_ Toyota ->selectable
|_ Other ->selectable
|_ bike
|_ BMW ->selectable
|_ Honda ->selectable
|_ Other ->selectable

Result will be:

BMW -> user don't know parent category
Toyota
Other -> user don't know parent category
BMW -> user don't know parent category
Honda
Other -> user don't know parent category

There are categories has same name.
That' why I want to show all of category tree and disable top and second categories not to selectable.

Any other way to achieve this please?

you cant, I have requested this feature in the past, but it is very hard to do.

How do you think this should be done?
Per user? per type of content? per category? per configuration?

I was thinking per type of content but This is not implemented in FC

I think giving disable option to category is easy for us and there are a lot of extensions covering category than type. Do you know which file to edit? I want to try it by myself.

algardata wrote: you cant, I have requested this feature in the past, but it is very hard to do.

How do you think this should be done?
Per user? per type of content? per category? per configuration?

I was thinking per type of content but This is not implemented in FC

It is possible to do for the item edit form,

the category tree is generated by a common helper function, which would only need only a couple of lines to do it, since the needed information is already available ...

You think it is worth it? we would do it by a Global Parameter overridden per Content Type?

What about giving 2 category dropdowns?
one for top category and another one for secondary category.
So user have to choose first category then associated secondary will be loaded on second drop down.

wait, are you changing subject? we are talking about allowing selection only of last categories

No I am not, I am suggesting in different way of selecting last category. I guess hierarchical category filtering dropdown would get away from user's mistake.
This will be more reliable if there are more than 2 level of categories as well. How do you think about it?

Selecting categories in 2 steps is a different topic, and has been asked before, in order to reduce category tree to a smaller size.

This would mean to either load ALL categories and use Javascript to hide categories in the second selection box or use AJAX to populate, this is considerably more work