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Improvement of selection of categories in UW
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'improved' feature. Previously (e.g. in September 2015) selection of categories in the UW worked differently (There was this 'add another category'-button which might have been considered not to be state-of-art.)

The old implementation allowed to change the category-name in the course of entering all the data. Now once a category is entered, you cannot change the name any more, but you have to delete it and re-enter it completely. This is because once the name is entered, it is converted to a link and you cannot move the cursor into it, you can open the category instead. For my part changing / copy-changing category names is the feature used more often compared to opening the category (Which I know by heart in most cases).

Furthermore the category selection is (and was) far beyond the elegance of HotCat. The UW does not allow to navigate the category tree. Which is a pity especially in combination with the changed usability above. In former times it was possible to change e.g. 'Cultural heritage monuments in Austria' to 'Cultural heritage monuments in somewhere else' by just replacing the Austria part. Now you have to start anew with typing once the category name is selected / entered.

  • Selecting categories should allow to navigate the category tree the same way HotCat does. (here category names are left bound!)
    • this should include the possibility to change already selected categories (like with HotCat).

There is a tradeoff with respect to newbies, which I cannot put in the right place. Navigation as in HotCat is a bit more complicated and may be too complicated for newbies or silver surfers. It is on you to make the design right.

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Furthermore the category selection is (and was) far beyond the elegance of HotCat.
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Selecting categories should allow to navigate the category tree the same way HotCat does.

This is probably the same thing as T42076: UploadWizard: Implement interface like HotCat for suggesting categories is requesting. Note that UW's category selector never had the full functionality of HotCat, and I don't think it was ever possible to integrate HotCat into it; I don't think we lost any features when redesigning the selector.

this should include the possibility to change already selected categories (like with HotCat).

Yeah, it probably should, we're tracking this at T119046: Allow editing of Capsules in CapsuleMultiSelectWidget by clicking on them. Since this is mostly what you're talking about in the report, I'll go ahead and dupe this task to that one, hope you don't mind :)