How to set default Topic 'Category'

[salmanfarisvp (Salman Faris)]

Hi Community,
How can I set up set default Topic Category from Uncategorized

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

You can turn off allow uncategorized topics, but I don’t believe that there is a way to set a default category.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@pfaffman

I don’t believe that there is a way to set a default category.

I actually think this is a legit feature request. Work around is that you can name “uncategorized” whatever you want, so you would give it a different name and it would be default selected.

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@sam

Work around is that you can name “uncategorized” whatever you want, so you would give it a different name and it would be default selected

It’s the workaround, but That never goes well. Uncategorized doesn’t have permissions and other stuff that categories have and then it’s impossible to debug because user forgot that they renamed it.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

We added a bunch of visible warnings around doing this, which has definitely helped.

[salmanfarisvp (Salman Faris)]

Thank you , I tried as you suggested and it’s working.

[alexjpanagis (Alex Panagis)]

Are there active plans to implement this feature now?