In Manage Categories, I want to add a field called ‘child_categories’ to select categories
and save them to my table child_categories with a column called categories.
the code below, displays the category tree, but it does not save when I save the category.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<form
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Ui:etc/ui_configuration.xsd">
<fieldset name="content" >
<field name="category_selector" component="X_Y/js/form/element/category-selector" formElement="select">
<argument name="data" xsi:type="array">
<item name="config" xsi:type="array">
<item name="filterOptions" xsi:type="boolean">true</item>
<item name="multiple" xsi:type="boolean">true</item>
<item name="showCheckbox" xsi:type="boolean">true</item>
<item name="disableLabel" xsi:type="boolean">true</item>
<item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="number">300</item>
</item>
</argument>
<settings>
<required>false</required>
<validation>
<rule name="required-entry" xsi:type="boolean">false</rule>
</validation>
<elementTmpl>ui/grid/filters/elements/ui-select</elementTmpl>
<label translate="true">Child Categories</label>
<dataScope>category_selector</dataScope>
<componentType>field</componentType>
<listens>
<link name="X_Y/js/form/element/category-selector:responseData">setParsed</link>
</listens>
</settings>
<formElements>
<select>
<settings>
<options class="MagentoCatalogUiComponentProductFormCategoriesOptions"/>
</settings>
</select>
</formElements>
</field>
</fieldset>
</form>
