[CWB] How to use text categories?

[Stefan Fischer]

Thanks for your explanation, Andrew!

Our production server is still running on v3.2.6. If I click on  
"Manage text categories", the following message is shown:
   "No text classification schemes exist for this corpus."
I set several text attributes to "Classifiction" on the "Manage corpus  
XML" page. So, is this due to bad settings or did text categories not  
work on that version?

Best,
Stefan

Quoting "Hardie, Andrew" <a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk>:

> Hi Stefan,
>
> Briefly,
>
> - this page will give you a form for each text-metadata field that  
> was installed with the datatype "classification"
> - each of these forms will list all the category handles that exist  
> within the given classification
> - by default, category handles are mapped to a "description" that is  
> the same as the category handle itself
> - BUT you can use the forms here to change the category descriptions  
> to something more user-friendly
> - since category handles are limited to short codes with no spacing  
> or punctuation this is often useful
> - if you do this, then the "descriptions" will show up in a whole  
> lot of different places in the user interface instead of the  
> category handles, including:
> -- restricted query form
> -- concordance header for a restricted query
> -- distribution display
> -- text metadata page.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> best
>
> Andrew.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it] On Behalf Of Stefan Fischer
> Sent: 21 October 2016 17:01
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> Subject: [CWB] How to use text categories?
>
> Hello all,
>
> I was wondering where I could find more information about the "Manage
> text categories" page. All I found was a placeholder in the
> administrator's manual.
>
> Best,
> Stefan
>
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