I Started to reorder Categories, but I discovered that the old drag and drop feature as disappeared. Now Ordering categories is extremely difficult and not frendly at all. How I’m supposed to do?

The drag&drop was removed because it was broken and would often screw up other stuff along with it, and because you had to drag them an insane distance. A new dialog for just ordering the categories is in the works, but it’s not ready yet.

You can change the “position” in the settings It’s more mobile friendly in that way

I don’t agree… This is like going back to ten years ordering way :worried:

Has this dialogue been implemented yet? I found an admin setting called fixed category positions under Basic Setup, but it doesn’t appear to do anything.

After enabling this setting, edit your categories and enter a position under their settings tab. These numbers behave a bit weird, but with a bit of experimentation you can order the categories as you want. I highly recommend having /categories in a separate tab and refreshing after every change to…

Thank you, @fefrei ! I may never have discovered that on my own. Not exactly an intuitive interface. :sadpanda:

To expand on the “weird” part: These numbers may change on their own. They appear to always be sequential, you can’t set them to arbitrary numbers (I wanted to use 100, 200, 210 for a subcategory etc.), you always have to look at the current state to choose the appropriate number to choose. Either t…

[imagen] fefrei: I’d really love to see that feature improve I’ll be fixing this up Monday :wink: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3703

How does it work with Subcategories? The presentation in the reorder dialogue is completely unrelated from the actual order and subcategory arrangement. [imagen] It looks like they might be alphabetical by original name.

The position will be used to order these: [imagen] Also, if you scroll down, you should see that it’s not alphabetical. You should wait to use the dialog until you get Category reordering fixes by riking · Pull Request #3748 · discourse/discourse · GitHub deployed

[imagen] riking: You should wait… OK… but what is the risk if I were to do so? :stuck_out_tongue: [imagen] riking: The position will be used to order these:… To order which? There is no clear relationship between the numbering pattern in the “Reorder Categories” modal, and the actual …

¿Cómo ordenar las categorías?

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riking (Kane York) 31 Agosto, 2015 06:03 9

I’ll be fixing this up Monday

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3703

Cannot change category position

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¿Cómo ordenar las categorías?

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