OK, I guess that makes sense. I'll do some more testing and unless I report back it works as you say it should.

 

A feature that would be nice to have is the ability to see which values are default (I know you can do it by creating a new category and comparing them in 2 admin windows but that's a lot of work). It probably has a low priority though.....

 

Thanks for your help.

Hi Jake, how did you know this was me?

 

I like your approach with Excel! Where is this DB and is there anything special that I need to take care of to make it work? 400 categories is a lot....

 

Don't get what you're saying about changing parameters though. The way I read your post is that you nest your STYLE GUIDES: 1 parent that handles the static/plain pages and multiple children to handle NEWS/PHOTO/etc. So what do you do to make the children act differently than their father and how do you keep track of the changes you made to the children?

Excel: Looks good, I'll give it a try. Thanks.

 

OK, understand what you're saying about the STYLE GUIDES.