July 17, 2025

This release brings you categories for users, as well as an update to requesting by category.

Categories

We’ve updated the way that categories work when users request items.

Therefore, Item Category has been changed to Category under the Multimodal project’s Feature Access Control since categories can now be added to users as well as items.

Categorize users

You now have the ability to assign project contributors with one or multiple categories that they’ll be able to select from when requesting items. This way, you can selectively define users’ access to certain categories.

Manage categories with SDK

We’ve also incorporated Python SDK functions that work around the Category feature. These can be used when managing categories for users, projects, and items.

Additionally, we’ve updated the list_users() function to include users’ categories in the displayed data.

Filter contributors by category (Coming soon)

You can also filter by category in the Project Contributor table.

What do you think of the updates? We'd love to hear your feedback.