Continuing the discussion from How should subcategory show its parent category?:
It seems like this isn’t possible right now. Should it be?
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A discussion is taking place on whether it’s possible to create subcategories with the same name under different parent categories. mcwumbly initiated the conversation, proposing a categorization system where multiple products have identical subcategories (e.g., “feature” and “bug”).
Several users, including RRManzke and Aselox, face similar challenges and support the idea. However, sam points out the potential UI issues, as it may be unclear which parent category a subcategory belongs to.
Despite initial concerns, codinghorror confirms that this is now possible due to changes made to allow subcategories with the same name.
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I have same problem. I believe that in the future an implementation based on pre-defined labels (product a, product b, bug, feature, etc) will be more efficient. thus creating a topic, you select the desired tags:
[product a] [bug]
or
[product b] [feature]
anyway, there should be a technical reason to use categories rather than labels. 
The tag vs categories debate will probably go on until someone writes a plugin.
But I’m just asking for a tweak that fits into the current category/subcategory system.
Category name uniqueness should probably only be enforced among siblings.
I think this should be allowed, but will require a bunch of backend work to support it.
Additionally, the UI would be a bit problematic cause when you see bug you would not know what parent category it belongs to.
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See the latest proposal here regarding that issue:
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Is anyone working on this feature? For me it’s really important as I have the same use case as OP
no one is working on this now, but we are open to a PR in this area
so is this possible now?
Yes this is possible for subcategories now.
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