Categories Help

This is just a presentation of the list of categories stored in the categories table in the database. These are used to populate the SELECT form item on the registration form, making it easy to change the list of categories on the form without having to edit the form.

The 'free?' column indicates whether or not a registration fee is charged for this category. The 'Maximum Entries' column specifies the maximum number of entries and particular entrant can have in the category. A zero (0, or anything less than 0) indicates no limit.

The only thing special about the list in the database is that Index position 1 must be the 'Kits/Block of the Month' category, whatever it might be called, and Index position 2 must be the 'Non-judged Display' category, again be whatever name is desired. These two category names are called out by index number and used in the Java script to limit registration of the Kit quilts to either of these 2 categories - moving them to a different index number will break the javascript code.

Otherwise, categories may be renamed at will here, and the Free/not-Free option and 'Maximum Entries' count be changed as well. There is a blank line at the bottom for adding a new entry. Existing entries may be deleted by simply deleting the category name. Index numbers 1 & 2 may not be deleted, however, only renamed - an attempt to delete them will fail with a warning.