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The discussion revolves around creating categories for a community with a large number of company-specific categories. Tubsfahkwah asks if it’s possible to group 1000 company categories (coded by stock ticker) under a title in the category dropdown menu, but codinghorror advises against using categories for company names, recommending the use of tags instead.

codinghorror provides a link to a blog post explaining the benefits of using tags. Nichalas_Petranek suggests creating a static page listing all available companies and associated tags, linked from the hamburger menu using the Custom Hamburger Menu Links theme component.

Tubsfahkwah asks about the extent to which tags can be “hardwired”, requesting the ability to:

  • Automatically add a specific company tag to all threads on a company page
  • Prevent users from adding other tags to company threads
  • Restrict company-related threads from being posted in general category sections
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Hi All, my community needs to create around 10 categories for general discussion and around 1000 categories for companies that are coded by their stock ticker.

Is it possible to put the 1000 categories/tickers into a “group” with a title in the category drop down so that users trying to navigate using the category drop down know what they are looking at?

So instead of seeing this:

  • Main topic 1
  • Main topic 2
  • Main topic 3
  • CXY
  • AVZ
  • AUZ

Id like them to see this

  • Main topic 1
  • Main topic 2
  • Main topic 3
    Company List
    CXY
    AVZ
    AUZ

Thank you

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This is not a good idea. You should use tags for the company names, not categories. See It’s Time We Talked About Tags

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Additionally, making a static page that lists all available companies and associated tags would help out tremendously.

You could then include the link to the static page in the hamburger menu with the Custom Hamburger Menu Links theme component. Easy to find and placement is right with the general discussion categories.

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Thanks. To what extent can tags be hardwired?

I’ll have one page per company so all threads for that company page need to list that
company tag exclusively. Can you stop users adding other tags to their thread?

Im also want to restrict people posting company related threads on the general category sections.