In a support thread titled “Problem switching parent categories?”, jonobacon reports an issue where category A is missing from the parent category dropdown when attempting to reassign subcategories from category C to A. HAWK suggests checking if “Uncategorized” was renamed, which jonobacon confirms. dax clarifies that “Uncategorized” is not a real category and doesn’t behave like a normal one — renaming it breaks its functionality. The recommended fix is to rename the current “Uncategorized” (formerly A) to something else, then create a new category named A, allowing the subcategories to be reassigned correctly. This workaround resolves the issue by ensuring a proper, functional parent category exists for reassignment.
Hi All,
Experiencing a strange issue. This is for a client, so I have to be a little generic. Current Discourse version is v2.0.0.beta4 +87
I have a number of parent categories such as A, B, C, D, and E.
For category C I have about 8 subcategories. I want to change their parent to be A, so I go into the category settings. When I click the parent category box, I can see all the parent categories other than A.
Any idea why one of my categories may be missing in the parent categories box?
Did you rename Uncategorised? (Could be unrelated but it’s a bit hard to troubleshoot as you noted so I’ll throw [ideas] at the wall).
You know what, I think I did.
If I renamed it does that mean it can’t have sub-categories?
Nope, Uncategorized is not a real category and does not behave like a normal category.
Rename the Uncategorized(A) to something else
Create a new category A and then you can change the parent from C to the new A.