Split Genre list dropdowns into 2 separate dropdowns?

[twinkietoes-on]

In the project template generator and the add_project screen, would it be possible to have one dropdown for fiction and a separate one for nonfiction? Genre list needs some sort of drill-down display, rather than a plain list. It's so long! And when your finger slips, you lose your place in the long list. (Try setting the genre Nonfiction / Science / Chemistry and you'll see how cumbersome it is...)

Priority: 3

[redrun45]

As recently discussed, it may be enough to have the genre menus be sorted alphabetically. Since Nonfiction is prefixed with a "*", it ought to show up first, in that case.

Here are a couple of examples of what that would look like:

The ordering of this menu is somewhat tied to the genres.lineage column. Currently, we can detach the menu from that, but the Genre Manager screen would still have the old ordering:

[redrun45]

Two pictures for the interface itself.

First, how this works: every item has a 'Priority'. Currently, that's 5 by default. Enter a higher number for a given item, and it will be sorted before the other items in the same (sub-)menu. Hopefully the tool-tip is equally explanatory:

Then, a convenience change for while we're here. The "Parent" drop-down will now indent the choices it offers you, just like the column on the left does. That should make it easier to keep track of where you are, in the long list of options:

Now, a couple of sub-menus that I've re-ordered by altering the priority numbers. You'll notice that "History" and "General Fiction", still have the default priority of 5. They are in the default, alphabetical order at their own menu level, regardless of how their sub-items are numbered.

Then, to demonstrate those same sub-menus in the Template Generator, ordered as they should be: