search for categories in back end is missing the sub categories

[carin]

Situation: I have +1000 categories with sub categories. I need to be able to display a top category including its children. Currently it is not possible to do that via a search. I have to scroll through the entire +1000 categiries find the one I am looking for. This is because the search has the bug that sub categorioes are not displayed on a search.

reproduce:
* back end
* go to categories
* search a category via the search field

expected:
* the matched categories are displayed including their sub categories

current:
* the matched categories are displayed without their sub categories

[ColinM]

Carin,
As far as I can see the backend Search in Categories finds all those categories and sub categories with the search word used.  I do not have as many categories as you do - see pic Search Categories Backend-01.png which lists those in my jd32 test site.  pics Search Categories Backend-02.png and Search Categories Backend-03.png shows the result of two particular searches.
One was searching for 'list' and the other one for 'other'.  However if I search for 'other list' then nothing is returned.  All of which I expected.

Are you looking for a search that is in a specific category?

Colin

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[carin]

Hi, thanks. Yes, your pics show exactly the problem I am talking about, actually they show both of the major problems:

1. take your pic -02: imagine you have 100 categories called "Other2". Each of these have a different parent category. How do you knwo which "Other2" you are accessing if you dont see the parent???

2. your setup has 1 category "other" with some sub structure, now imagine this structure is copied in 10 of your 100 SigCatxxx, now you want check if all of your "other" structures are set up correctly, so you search for "other" to display only these structures, but you cant because all the sub categories are missing, so you cannot use the search and you have to scroll manually through the entire forest of categories

[ColinM]

Aha!  I now understand.  The search results would be much improved if they showed the path - good idea
Colin

[carin]

The search results would be much improved if they showed the path

Yes, but the real problem for me right now is "the missing sub categories" on the search.