Allow Categories to Collapse/Scrollable in Editor UI

Feature Request
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  • What do you need?

In the admin/editor UI, allow categories to be similarly collapsable as on the frontend site.

  • Why do you need it?

We have a lot of articles, and it takes a while to scroll through them all. I can use ⌘+K to search for an article specifically, but, it doesn’t fully resolve this usability issue.

  • How would it work?

Inherit options from the Documentation. Otherwise, consider adding as an Advanced Feature flag.

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Bumping this. It’s become more and more so increasingly an issue for the team in terms of one of our bigger projects. If not otherwise creating an article via the API and re-directing the user to it (via some widget or otherwise), and you have 100s of articles, for example, the sections become hard to get to (in order to click the “+” needed to create an article). Collapsable categories would go a long way.

Otherwise, another considerable option would be to provide a way to create an article from the top, and select which section it’ll go into, and which template to use.

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I hear you. I’ll get this tasked.

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This is now available :tada:

In the editor, the categories of the index are collapsible when clicked. If you’re dragging an element over a collapsed category, the category will open.

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@zed I missed this previously – awesome!! Thank you! This is a huge improvement to my workflow and I’m sure others as well.

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Additional request related to this feature: can there be an option to enable collapsing categories by default for a project? I’d specifically like to enable this for our KBs vs Docs project.

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@Matthew_Roark there already is an option to collapse categories by default “Can categories collapse” under documentation settings (it does not apply to editor however). Is this what you’re asking about?

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Yes, I’m specifically referring to the editor UI. I’d prefer that all other categories (aside from the one for the article I’ve been linked to using the editor admin link) be collapsed. By default, it scopes me to the article I’m on - but, then, I have to scroll alllll the way back up to find out what category I’m in, and the scroll is longer if articles from other categories are also visible.