Unable to Create "Categories" in Management Module

[yacobk01]

Categories field in Management Module is not displaying in Admin tab or allowing for addition under the Categories selection box. Is CORAL documentation out of date or is this a system issue: http://docs.coral-erm.org/en/latest/management.html#new-document

[xsong9]

Hi Karen, We don't use the Management Module in our libraries, but I see Categories field is displaying properly in the online demo instance of CORAL. You can access the live demo instance on CORAL <http://coral-erm.org/> website <http://coral-erm.org/>. I wonder if it's a local configuration issue. If you host it in house, I suggest checking with IT. Thanks,

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[yacobk01]

Thank you so much for your reply. I was wondering if it might be a local config issue. I'll check with my IT as you suggest. Thank you again for your suggestion.

[streatim]

While it could still be a local issue (and maybe was?), I ran into this issue with two fresh installs of 2020.09 (one on a web server, another on a local). Aside from configuring my server to run CORAL, they were both pretty vanilla and I didn't fuss with the configuration files manually.

Looking through the GitHub issues, I came across this response from Issued 502 (#502 (comment)).

If you have connected/linked the Organizations module (organizationsModule=“Y" in configuration.ini in /management) the categories are gathered from organizations that have to role of Consortium, organizationRoleID=1 in the OrganizationRole table in the database.
If you have organizationsModule=“N", you can add categories in admin. The Management configuration_sample.ini file also says:
The Management module is not meant to tie into the other CORAL modules. They only module that has been tested is the Auth module. The Management was a clone of the Licensing module originally that was modified for a specific purpose. enable other modules at your own risk.

I confirmed this was the case on 3.0.2 by adding a Consortium in my Organizations Module; it then appeared in the Category dropdown of the Management module and was selectable when adding a new document. Setting the OrganizationsModule to N activated the ability to add/edit Categories in the Admin tab of Management, as well as brought in a default category of "CORAL Documentation."