Subcategories in webui

[bevanweiss]

Hi all,
I've been using the Windows client for ages, and have really liked subcategories for organising my downloads.
Just recently I've decided that I'd like to be able to access qBittorrent on my network from other locations, and not just my personal PC. So I've run up a docker for it, and have just started to set up the webui.

However, the first issue I've run into is no support for subcategories it seems.
Am I wrong on this? It's not in the options pane. I've even tried hand editing the config file to add in the setting for it

The final message in the issue linked below almost sounds like it worked for them. But this was via nox, and not direct webui... so perhaps it's just a webui deficiency at this stage..
#12819

This merged pull request also seems to suggest that subcategories are not yet in there (at least back in 2018).
#9752 (comment)

I haven't had a look at the webui source code at this stage... it shouldn't be impossible right (for me to implement)... but gee it would be nice if there was just some setting I was overlooking..

[bevanweiss]

Ok, I had a quick play around with Windows client, and webui. It looks like things are actually 'ok'ish... the webui is kind of working ok. It just doesn't have the tree control for the subcategories.
i.e. if I manually create a brand new category with a name like 'Test/Test/Test' then it does indeed enumerate to be three 'level's of nested subcategories Test, Test->Test, and Test->Test->Test... they just aren't shown as a nested set in the webui.
And it doesn't have the nice 'Add Subcategory' thing to it (and then 'Delete Subcategory' etc etc).

So..
a. Yes, it shouldn't be too tricky to have the webui handle this, it would essentially be all frontend ui work on decoding the categories into a tree view structure.
b. I can have them all stored correctly just by using the '/' delimiter between the levels of the subcategories

Would still be keen on hearing if there is the magic switch I'm not seeing yet..

[spirillen]

Nice, and I also believes the subcategory should be developed as many installations are hosted on external servers vs local machines.