Categories feel hard to manage

[Ktar5]

In the current system for categories, we are shown a list of all our categories with all their private options exposed to our eyes. This makes the feel of the category menu, for me at least, feel cluttered. When someone like me has many categories, and subcategories, we have a large, scary page in front of us.

Solution?
I propose that categories should hide their options until we call for them. A great example of category management is in VanillaForums: Create a category, drag and drop it slightly to the right of another category to mark it as a subcategory, with a pretty little edit button on the side to allow us to change those more sensitive settings: such as permissions, icon, title, etc.

Here is a visual of VanillaForums category system, and yes, I own a Minecraft server, don't hate.

[Ktar5]

I should really remember to add labels to my issues..

[pitaj]

Adding a treeview, with draggable elements would be an awesome and easier.

[lots0logs]

👍 on this issue. I am working to migrate our phpbb forum to nodebb and it is extremely tedious to have to set category permissions one-at-a-time for each category. Is there a way around this...maybe from the command line?

[julianlam]

I'd prefer if the main "ACP/Categories" page were a summary, and clicking on any category would go to a new page with all options.

We'd also remove the need for access controls to be in a separate modal, because bootstrap modals are absolutely _godawful_.

Would prefer a nice table myself, so I can give this a shot...

[lots0logs]

We'd also remove the need for access controls to be in a separate modal, because bootstrap modals are absolutely godawful.

Agreed! There's too much clicking necessary to manage permissions. IMO, some checkmark input fields on the front page would be so much better.

[Ktar5]

Woot! Things happening

[julianlam]

Long way to go...

[pichalite]

👍 awesome