Allow arbitrary nesting depth in categories

[asmecher]

last updated: Sept 2024

Journal Managers can currently create Categories and Subcategories in Settings > Journal > Categories:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/42e25d1e-e681-42a5-a3f8-b23930a6caa3

However, this artificially limits the nesting depth to 2 levels. It should be easy to support arbitrary nesting depth. The database already supports this, but the user interface does not.

[asmecher]

The UI library aspect of this is filed in #10449.

[mreiko]

Would @eirikhanssen take this one?

[bozana]

@mreiko, do you maybe mean @ewhanson ?

[mreiko]

Yes! Thanks Bozana.

[taslangraham]

All merged!
@Tribunal33 over to you for testing

[Tribunal33]

@taslangraham Testing went well. Looks good for OJS. I couldn't see issues with it. I'm going to be doing a quick test for OPS/OMP as well but I don't see much difference in the requirements for these projects. OMP has catalogs by default so I can see if there are many differences there. OPS should work the same. I'm not sure if you want to automate 1, 2 and 4 (only removing from the category list)

Test Case Overview:

1. Test adding a new parent category: As Journal Manager only Navigate to Settings > Journal > Categories > Select Add Category
2. Test adding a new nested category: Once a category is created, use the ellipsis menu to create nested subcategories.
3. Test editing a category: using ellipsis menu try editing and saving a category
4. Test deleting a category:
   a. Should bring up a popup warning asking “Are you absolutely sure you want to delete {Category} category?”
   b. Deleting the category will remove all sub-categories
   c. Unassign this category for any submission currently using it
   d. This will not delete the submission themselves just left without a category.
   e. Test Cancel button -> Should close window without deleting anything
   f. To confirm, please type the name of the category “{category}” below to proceed
   g. Selecting the “I understand the consequences, delete this category” will remove the category from the list as well as any subcategories.
5. Testing if deleting a category unassigns the category from a submission
6. Testing if deleting a category with a subcategory unassigns the subcategory from a submission.
7. Testing adding categories to the metadata when making a new submission works with a new submission. Turn on Workflow > Submission > Metadata > Categories option Yes, add a categories field to the submission wizard and create a new submission choosing a category you have created.
8. Test that these new categories can be assigned to a submission from the Publication > Issues > Categories section. Toggle them on and off.
9. Test if the category filters can auto complete these new categories and subcategories. On Dashboard view select Filters button and in Categories field enter the beginning of a new category.
10. Test if the category filters can find the submission with the subcategory added.
11. OJS does not have a catalog links turned on by default. To enable the links for categories we will need to first turn on the Browse Block Plugin and then enable it in the sidebar under Website > Setup > Sidebar > Browse Block.

• Might try to make a new sub-issue task/minor feature to fix the plugin as it didn't reflect the new nesting depth and one of them was not under the right parent category. Here it is: [Gateway and Collections] - Update Browse Block plugin dev-team#100