# Issues while creating a new subcategory
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-while-creating-a-new-subcategory/156479
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [July 1, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-while-creating-a-new-subcategory/156479 "2020-07-01T14:14:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@balboah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/balboah)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-while-creating-a-new-subcategory/156479/1 "2020-07-01T14:14:32Z")
Being the first time I create a subcategory, I found some quirks while doing so:
### 1
I have set the default view to be _Latest_ instead of _Category_.
While in _Latest_ view, there are no hamburger menu where you access _New Category_. There are only a button for creating a new topic.
### 2
While having the _Create Category_ window open, _Parent Category_ select shows also subcategories.
But if you try to use a subcategory as the parent, you will have an error _You can’t nest a subcategory under another_. So why are these displayed in the list?
### 3
When switching to _Category_ view, then navigating to the main category I’d like to create a subcategory in. There is no hamburger menu for this, I first have to go to the main categories overview
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-while-creating-a-new-subcategory/156479/2 "2020-07-01T14:41:54Z")
Hi Johnny,
> [@balboah](#):
>
> ### 1
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> I have set the default view to be _Latest_ instead of _Category_ .
> While in _Latest_ view, there are no hamburger menu where you access _New Category_ . There are only a button for creating a new topic.
This is a deliberate choice, to create categories you must be on the `/categories` page.
> [@balboah](#):
>
> ### 2
>
> While having the _Create Category_ window open, _Parent Category_ select shows also subcategories.
> But if you try to use a subcategory as the parent, you will have an error _You can’t nest a subcategory under another_ . So why are these displayed in the list?
We will look into this
> [@balboah](#):
>
> ### 3
>
> When switching to _Category_ view, then navigating to the main category I’d like to create a subcategory in. There is no hamburger menu for this, I first have to go to the main categories overview
The only place where you can create new categories and subcategories as I said is the `/categories` page. Personally I would like to see the hamburger menu also on a specific category if the latter has no subcategories or is a parent category of other subcategories. I don’t remember that there have been other requests in this sense from other users, however certainly more than a bug is a feature request.