# Subcategories in the node palette
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/subcategories-in-the-node-palette/89845
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Tags:** editor
**Created:** [29 July 2024 04:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/subcategories-in-the-node-palette/89845 "2024-07-29T04:46:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@rafafrecceiro](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/rafafrecceiro)
#### Post date: [29 July 2024 04:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/subcategories-in-the-node-palette/89845/1 "2024-07-29T04:46:35Z")
Hello everyone, how are you doing?
I have been developing nodes for Node-RED for quite some time, specifically since version 1.0.
At my company, we developed a complete chatbot for WhatsApp and other communicators entirely using Node-RED, with custom-created nodes.
As a result, the node palette ends up being somewhat disorganized with only one category. With this in mind, I started implementing a category system for the nodes. With this change, when creating a node, you can pass not only the category attribute but also another attribute called subCategory. This way, Node-RED will build nested dropdowns in the node palette according to the categories, greatly facilitating the work of those who use many nodes.
What do you think?
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### Author:  [@joepavitt](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/joepavitt)
#### Post date: [30 July 2024 07:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/subcategories-in-the-node-palette/89845/2 "2024-07-30T07:17:46Z")
✋ I would also love this for organising the Dashboard nodes
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### Author:  [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)
#### Post date: [30 July 2024 08:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/subcategories-in-the-node-palette/89845/3 "2024-07-30T08:37:37Z")
Hi @rafafrecceiro
It has been something that has come up a small number of times over the years; but it has never translated into anything other than a high level idea. And it hasn't been compelling enough for me to spend my time on.
If you have a more concrete proposal over how it would work; ie how the categories are defined in a backwards compatible way, how the UI presents the categories etc, then please do share.
Nick
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### Author:  [@GogoVega](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/GogoVega)
#### Post date: [18 September 2024 13:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/subcategories-in-the-node-palette/89845/4 "2024-09-18T13:09:19Z")
If someone has the time to create the containers for the parent category and the child category, that would help me to move forward 🙏
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [17 November 2024 13:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/subcategories-in-the-node-palette/89845/5 "2024-11-17T13:09:27Z")
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