RP 3.3: Parent/Child field inheritance prblm

[Calisto12]

Hi guys,
First of all thanks for such a great software!
Just upgraded to 3.3 from 3.1 (actually made clean RP 3.3 install, new DB, etc.) and found some problem: subcategory cannot inherit all custom fields from its parent. Here are the steps I made:
- created top category (say, "Collections"), added custom field (drop box) with params "single item||collection||other". Set a few custom text fields like "approx price", "content link", etc. Set permissions for products publishing: for registered users and moderators.
Set this category to "apply settings and permissions to all children". Set for this category "contain products": no.
- created ten subcategories for my top category.

The first problem appears here: publishing permissions reset: everybody could publish products, not only reg.users and moderators as it was stated in top category settings. Also, only text fields are inherited; drop down menu is not present in subcategory editpage. If I now try to publish something: custom text fields are present but drop down menu is not.

Any ideas?

[Chuck S]

You can not inherit the special additional custom boxes to a subcat. They must be set special for each cat.

Category permissions inherit to subcats so if you inherit permissions make sure they are as you want them to inherit

[SHalliday]

I have the same problem, i think inheritance of the additional fields is a MUST.

Some of us use lengthy additional fields which will require us to spend tons of time adding them to reviewpost.

Definately should be added to next release, it could be a checkbox to make it optional.

Last i have a question, im gonna create a Query to duplicate those fields inside "extrafields" table, and apply the needed changes to "categories ", but which fields are affected inside categories table?

I located one that seems to be needed: numextra, but i have doubts with revextra and ugnoview.

Can you help chuck?

[Chuck S]

revextra is for review extras. numextra is the right one that needs to be incremented by one if you add an extra for a category.

[SHalliday]

Thank you agin, Chuck. Just want I needed.