openfoodfacts / openfoodfacts-server

Open Food Facts database, API server and web interface - 🐪🦋 Perl, CSS and JS coders welcome 😊 For helping in Python, see Robotoff or taxonomy-editor
http://openfoodfacts.github.io/openfoodfacts-server/
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Add a hierarchical category (and tag) picker #10987

Open teolemon opened 2 weeks ago

teolemon commented 2 weeks ago

Problem

It would also be nice to be able to see a tree of categories. For example, if I select Apple, under it perhaps it could show the subcategories of apples to pick from (Gala Apple, Macintosh Apple), rather than having to hope I know the right one, or understand it well enough to be able to select it effectively (e.g. further specify the category if applicable:)

Proposed solution

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