🎏 Categories
Categories are a way to logically group together a set of challenges.
For example, a category can be created to group together a set of Cryptography specific challenges. Similarly, web specific challenges can be put under a category named web.
A challenge can only have 1 category assigned to it. Participants will be able to search, filter and find challenges based on the category it belongs to.
If you think you need to assign more than 1 category to a challenge, you may want to look into using tags instead. Tags are similar to categories, but a challenge can have multiple tags assigned to it.
Category is a mandatory field while creating a challenge. If you think your challenge does not belong to any category,
you may create a default category, say Misc., and assign it to your challenge.
Creating a Category
Categories can be created by administrators from Manage > Categories page, clicking on Create Category button.
The platform supports adding and managing as many categories as one wants.
Where it is Used?
Challenge Page
The challenge page will show the category of the challenge. This will help participants to recognize the type of challenge, so as to plan their strategy/approach, select the right tools, etc. (or in fact, to skip the challenge if it doesn't interest them).
Challenge Listing
Participants can search, filter and find challenges based on the category it belongs to,
from the /challenges page.
There is also a dedicated page for each category, which lists all the challenges belonging to that category, which
can be accessed by clicking on the category name from the /challenges page or from the breadcrumb of a given
challenge. The direct URL for a category page is /challenges/<category_slug>.
The organizers will also be able to search and filter challenges from the admin manage challenges page.
Profile Page
A contestant's profile page will show a pie chart showing the distribution of challenges solved by the contestant across different categories. This will help organizer and other contestants to identify the contestant's area of expertise.
Scoreboard
The scoreboard can be filtered to show the scores and rankings of contestants belonging to a particular category, i.e. category-wise scoreboards of the contest can be generated. This filter needs to be enabled from the scoreboard settings page.
Analytics Panel
One can view category-wise statistics of the challenge submissions in the submission tab.