All About Category Schemas

1. Can you force a category schema value to be selected for a specific asset type? Asset constraints can limit the categories available for an asset type but there doesn't seem to be a way to force a user to categorize an asset. Is this what the automatic categorization feature is for?

There currently isn't a way to force one except thru automatic categorization.

2. Can you make a category schema dependent upon an attribute selection?
Example: Say I have an attribute called Maturity with the choices of Global, Geographic and Account. If the author chooses Global, then no categorization is required. If the author chooses Geographic then I want to force them to choose a single geography from a cat schema. If they choose Account, then I want them to be able to choose one or more accounts from a schema.

There currently isn't a way to do this either.

You can create a policy that after the update would validate this and if not correct then set a policy error result that needs to be fixed before the asset can move on.

You can open an enhancement request for it to be evaluated for the future.

Thanks,
Rich

 I've forced an user to select a specific category or subcategory through transition validation. You can get a very complex and hard configuration to maintain, but works.

Agree with Gili's remarks.  Custom policy can categorize, set attribute values etc.  We have had some success using RAM APIs to do this.