Categories hierarchy not displaying in community events submission form

[torontokundaliniyoga]

I’m using events pro, community events, and filter bar. All the categories show up in the community events submission form but not in a parent/child hierarchy as set up in backend. I know the hierarchy is being recognized by events pro because it shows up in the filter bar.

How can I create get the hierarchy to display in the community events submission form?

[Brook]

Howdy torontokundaliniyoga,

That is a good idea. This can be accomplished via a theme override. You could overrid /community/modules/taxonomy.php. Instead of calling formCategoryDropdown() you could write your own function that outputs categories as a select, perhaps doing subcats inside of optgroups? At that point it is up to you!

Obviously that will require some knowhow. This could be a popular feature request though. If you would like to recommend it as a feature so the community can vote on it, that would increase the likelihood that we could build this out as a feature integrated into Community in the future.

Does that all make sense? Can I answer any further questions? Cheers!

– Brook

[torontokundaliniyoga]

Howdy right back atchya Brook,
Your answer definitely comes close to making sense and would probably make complete sense if I knew PHP. Alas, I am but a poor low level seat of the pants HTML/CSS guy. I shall have to leave the situation as is and just go with non-hierarchical categories and request the feature for future community events builds as you suggested.
Thanks for the quick reply, much appreciated
TKY

[Brook]

Yeah, I wish there was an easier option. Good call on requesting it as a feature. It makes sense to me. It certainly makes a lot of sense! However, I believe there is some difficulty with implementation. Since <optgroup>s are not selectable, we would either need to add the parent category elsewhere, perhaps as a subcat under its own heading. Or, we would need to create our own visual distinguishment, perhaps prefixing subcats with a dash. Either way it is super janky and probably would get complaints from some people. But, if enough people are interested in it then it will make sense to choose a route no matter how janky it is. Thanks for the suggestion!

– Brook

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