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I want to have a two-level category: GroupCat/ subCat1/view1 subCat2/view1 The XML seems to support this through parentCategory, but I can only get this to work for 'top level' categroies with empt 'parentCategory'. If I try and use the 'parentCategory' of subCat1 pointing to GroupCat, and link my view to subCat1, it just gets listed under 'Other', not GroupCat/subCat as expected. So views can only be listed one level deep, which I think is a bug. Im using 3.1M6.
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This may be a dupe of bug #84170. Does this issue have ownership? Basically, the api doc is just wrong and many may spend hours trying to get it to work "fully qualified ids? leading slash? what am I doing wrong!". Or, I'm mistaken, the feature is implemented but add me to the list of those who just can't get sub-categories for views!
(In reply to comment #2) > Does this issue have ownership? Yes, I as the assignee own this issue. We don't have plans to work on this though. Why is it important to have more than one level of categories? I can only guess, but my take on this would be that the schema was designed to be extensible to multi-level categories in the future, but that the implementation of the Show View dialog only uses one level to simplify the UI. It is not clear to me if the additional UI complexity of multiple levels can be justified by what you gain when having more fine-grained categories. This is even more true now that the Show View dialog has a filtered tree.
The API docs should be updated then. I just ran again in this bug and took me half an hour to find out whats wrong. I agree that the filtered view list does not need multiple levels. But you should not be able to have the parentCategory anymore in the UI then.
(In reply to comment #3) > ...Why is it important to have more than one level of categories? Please note that this also effects the "New Project wizard". The wizard supports subcategories but "Show view" does not. Both should work in sync. Btw: if the views category path is specified with slashes (as suggested within the doc), a annoying warning appears: "Reference identifier cat1/cat2 cannot be found".
Remy is now responsible for watching the [ViewMgmt] category.
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