By Florian Jandt on Wednesday, 14 October 2015
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Hello

I wonder if there's a way to dynamically change the auto-selected category in the category list inside the composer? I know it always selects the category you select with the "star" in the backend list, but i try to get it to work so the system dynamically sets that "pointer" to "in which category is the user right now?" instead of that one selected category in the list.

Right now i could set it to some kind of "collective category" so every poster that is to lazy to select the specific category just posts it in there and then later on the user or i have to move it to the right category, but it would be a great time saver if you could just let the script for the auto-selected category inside the composer point to -for example- the last category the user was looking at.

I'm looking through the files to find the specific code that points to that "star" in the category list but i guess when you just change that value by looking at where a user is right now whenever he clicks on "post something" it would just make a big mess with the system because it would change it system-wide for everyone all the time, not only for this one user?

So maybe there's an easier way to dynamically change what's auto selected at first in the list whenever someone posts something?
Hey Florian,

I am sorry but unfortunately right now this isn't possible to change the default category dynamically I will try to see if we could enhance this in the menu for the composer in the next release.
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Wednesday, 14 October 2015 16:40
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Thank you for the fast answer Looking forward to that feature!
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Wednesday, 14 October 2015 16:45
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You are most welcome Florian
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Wednesday, 14 October 2015 16:49
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Oh there's another thing... is there a way to change the selection in the category list, so only one category can be selected at a time?

When i go by this way to let everyone automatically post into the "collective" category, but someone decides to select a category, then both are selected... the default "collective" category AND the category he selected himself. Would be nice if the script only allows one active selection at a time, propably something i can change somewhere in a php file?
Don't want a copy of every post in the collective category... people are lazy, clicking again to deselect the default category might be too much to ask for ;D
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Wednesday, 14 October 2015 17:07
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Hello Florian,

I'm sorry but it is not possible to have only category selected at one time.
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Wednesday, 14 October 2015 17:55
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