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I have a list where the user can choose multiple items, and than he can press a button that will "add the selected items to a category". But I want the user to be able to add the items to:

a) A new category
b) An existing category

My first idea was show a screen to choose option A or B, and than the next screen will ask the category name or list all existing categories. But I'm not sure that is the ideal way.

I tried to search about this, but I don't know what keywords to use.

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  • What information is displayed when listing existing categories (just a name?) and what information must be provided by the user when creating a new category?
    – Matt Obee
    Commented Aug 21, 2013 at 14:21
  • a) The category name and the sun of itens inside this cat;
    – Max Andriani
    Commented Aug 21, 2013 at 14:27
  • b) When create a new cat, just a name.
    – Max Andriani
    Commented Aug 21, 2013 at 14:27

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My online email client does the same thing as pictured. And another does the same.
enter image description here

So you are in a right way.

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  • I liked your idea a lot, but how does it work with 100+ items? If I expand the box to 200px and add a scroll and a serach field maybe can fix my problem. what do you think?
    – Max Andriani
    Commented Aug 21, 2013 at 14:31
  • This is a good solution. Since the user only need enter a name when creating a new category, you could even include a text input and an 'add' button directly at the top of this menu without having to send the user off somewhere else.
    – Matt Obee
    Commented Aug 21, 2013 at 14:35
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    For 100+ items you can use a type ahead field. The field can also allow the user to type in a new item.
    – Alok Jain
    Commented Aug 21, 2013 at 14:49
  • @MaxAndriani, I'd do exactly what you've said: scroll and search.
    – Alexey Kolchenko
    Commented Aug 21, 2013 at 15:59
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I think it would be better to have in each line of the list the possibility to "add to category.." or to "create new category".

Spotify uses something like that and I think it works fine. The only issue for me is that is only visible on mouse over and that could bring accessibility problems.

But, like I said, for me was intuitive. There's a screen shot. Hope it helps!!

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  • This idea is very nice to use in single tasks. But I think it is not very usefull when the user need to interact with 30 or 40 items because he need to do it for each item.
    – Max Andriani
    Commented Aug 21, 2013 at 15:22

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