Tagging category of custom component in Joomla 3.2

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I have set up categories for my custom component in Joomla 3.2 using the instructions here: http://docs.joomla.org/J2.5:Developing_a_MVC_Component/Adding_categories and looking at the com_weblinks component (since a few things were changed between 2.5 and 3.2).

However I want to use the system-wide tagging as well, but can't get that to work. The tag field is shown when editing my own categories, but when I enter something and save the category I get an empty error message: Save failed with the following error:, and nothing behind the colon.

I have looked at the com_weblinks source for inspiration but can not figure out how to get tagging to work for my custom component categories.

EDIT Digging in the code it seems that something is going wrong in mapData() of JUcmContent, but I am not familiar with that (deep) part of Joomla. Do I have to set up a mapping somewhere?

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Are you able to edit the categories at all? Try changing the name of a category and see if that saves. – David Fritsch
Yes I can edit the category, assign it to a parent and so on. – Jan Misker
Well that takes out what I was thinking. I'm not at all familiar with the tag system yet... – David Fritsch

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I found it, I have to set up a content type for my category in order for it to be taggable.

Info here: http://docs.joomla.org/J3.2:Using_Tags_in_an_Extension