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Many users want to pick two or more categories for their proposal. It would be nice to be able to do so.
Because it's not possible, we recommend to use hashtags.
Describe the solution you'd like
A list of categories that participants can click so they get added to a text field (see screenshot from CONSUL)
Describe alternatives you've considered
A combo box with multiple choice capability.
Additional context
This could be extended to other categorisable items
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I don't see why hashtags are not good for this. I mean. The very notion of category is that it respects a hierarchy and a principle of uniqueness. I cannot be a dog and a human at the same time, nor a vertebrate and a plant. This is important for the way in which categories might be used, e.g. to convert a set of proposals into a continous text, or when visualizing data, etc. So maybe, what we need is to improve hashtags but I would definetly not overlap the features destryoing what categories are good at: categorizing!
I agree, categories should stay as they are. We should concentrate in improving tags instead.
On the other hand, there can be multiple different categorization needs, not just one.
However, Decidim already has scopes which could be easily utilized for this. The UX should be just improved, no one understands or knows how to use the scopes picker right now. It should just be a simple dropdown people are already familiar with.
So, just to give an example how people might want to add multiple categories/scopes to an idea/proposal:
- The categories case as-is already in Decidim (e.g. this idea concerns about the nature and parks)
- An area scope - which area of a city this idea belongs to (not just the address point, the area as a area category) + possibly a sub-area
- Impact - How big is the impact of the idea? (the whole city, citizens in a specific area, tourists, etc.)
- etc.
We've even had a case where they wanted to have ideas + initiatives in the same place, the user would just pick the "type" from a dropdown when entering the idea (could be done also with a scope).
And I agree very much, all of these should be something that are pre-defined by admins, not something the users can freely enter.
The main problems I see with this:
- The scopes picker is unintuitive and no one understands how to use it (don't re-invent the wheel, stick to well known common conventions, i.e. a simple dropdown).
- The scope's field is always named as "scope". It should be named based on the parent scope, e.g. if the parent scope's name is "Impact", the scope field should be named as "Select Impact".
- There can only be a single scope to be selected. By allowing multiple scopes I believe such cases could be quite easily addressed.
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