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[GH-ISSUE #1767] [Bug]: Category search no longer finds groups #70403
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Originally created by @andyvandesand on GitHub (Oct 7, 2023).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/issues/1767
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What happened?
After updating to v23.10.0 I noticed when going through transactions and assigning categories that typing the name of a category group no longer brings up the categories within that group. This was very helpful - for example, I have a cateogry "Other" in a number of different category groups, and can now only type in "other" which will bring up the list of all "other"s that I have to select from, as opposed to typing e.g. "groceries" and having the right one close by. This made the process much quicker.
I'm almost certain this worked in the previous version!
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What browsers are you seeing the problem on?
Microsoft Edge
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Windows 11
@Kidglove57 commented on GitHub (Oct 7, 2023):
@andyvandesand
I believe this is the result of a different request to have the category groups excluded. See #1681
I guess we all have different use cases. I am easy whether groups are included or excluded in the search to allocate a category to a transaction.
@andyvandesand commented on GitHub (Oct 7, 2023):
Hmm, sorry not sure why this didn't come up in my search, I figured it must have been something like this.
How about making it a setting then?
@Kidglove57 commented on GitHub (Oct 7, 2023):
In any event, personally I feel overall it is best to include category groups in the search . It helps for orientation and to reassure that the right budget category has been selected for that transaction.
So personally my vote would be to revert the change or, as you say, make it optional although I have no idea how hard this would be to code.
@mgrixti commented on GitHub (Dec 7, 2023):
I would second reverting the change. I personally find it easier to remember 10-15ish groups rather than 50+ categories. It seems to me that having strategically named groups to limit search results overlap is more reasonable than limiting all the other users from searching by the parent group.
@youngcw commented on GitHub (Feb 4, 2024):
Closing this in favor of feature request #2324