Ability to sort subcategories

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Is there a way to manually and/or automatically sort subcategories?
Based on suggestions in this thread, I am using subcategories to organize components of a larger project (which has it’s own category). The problem is that I can’t figure out a way to put them into order.
The setup I would want is:

Project A (category)
   Work Package 1 (subcategory) 
      Equipment purchases (project)
      Networking, Collaborations, and Outreach (project)
      Training (project)
      ... 
   Work Package 2 (subcategory) 
   Work Package 3 (subcategory)

Currently, the latest subcategories is always placed on top and the only way to change that seems to recreate them in reverse order. Any better way to do that (without having to recreate them)?

In general, if I may submit this as feature request, it would be great if, similar to “Sort Projects Alphabetically”, I would also be “Sort Subcategories Alphabetically” (and ideally not just alphabetically, but perhaps by date create, manually, ascending/descending etc.).

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+1, that would be great to sort subcategories alphabetically. Thank you.

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I just tried myself on macOS. It is a bit tricky, but it does seem to be possible. If you drag a subcategory above or under another subcategory, it will open a place to drop it.

There is one caveat: It seems to only work when the subcategories are all expanded (not collapsed). I don’t know if that is by design or a bug. In any case, a workaround is to expand them and then try.

I’ll try to look into why there is this restriction.

Kind regards,
Drew

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Oh wow, awesome. It does work indeed!
With the drag lock on (on macbook with track pad) it even works if the categories are collapsed. It’s just a bit finnicky, you have to hold it and then wait before dragging and dropping so it doesn’t change the hierarchy of categories (become a sub-subcategory).
Not sure if that could be made a bit easier or if that depends on the underlying OS.
But glad it actually works – thanks for helping me figure this out :slight_smile:

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