[Feature] Search by Category Including Subcategory

[Crazypkr1099]

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Pitch: what problem are you trying to solve?

When searching for a category, it doesn't show the category, causing people who don't remember their subcategory name to have to go back to the report page, remember the category name and then search by it.

This was a feature that was removed to improve the search function for people who memorized their subcategories.

As a person who has tons of subcategories, this makes it extremely difficult, and I would like this reverted.

In addition, this did not follow the proper protocol of being put to a vote, but instead hidden inside a bug feature report.

Describe your ideal solution to this problem

Either revert the change or add a setting option to toggle this on/off, as shown in #1767

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[MatissJanis]

Related: #1615

[yoyotogblo]

I vote for reverting the change so we can search category groups. When you have the same category in many groups, it's much faster to search by category group. Also, in cases where one can't remember the specific category, it helps to search by the group. Can't think of any real strong reason for the original change to have been made. An extra click isn't too big a deal.

[youngcw]

@Crazypkr1099 Is this good to close as a completed feature?

[Crazypkr1099]

@Crazypkr1099 Is this good to close as a completed feature?

Yessir thanks!