Add ability to see category group in table when viewing a custom source

[jamie-s-white]

The problem

When I create a new custom source in categories, it is not possible to see the category group of each category in the table, for example:

I have created a new custom source "Feed group", which is one of the category groups "News", "Tags" or "Events".

However, when viewing this custom source, I have no way of seeing which category group each category is in, because I cannot choose Category Group as a table column:

It would be great if this table header option could be added to this view as otherwise categories from different category groups may have the same title and impossible to easily distinguish.

Alternative potential solution 1

I believe I could do something similar if I entrified these categories, set up a custom source within entries, and then added a Section column, but, that obviously has further reaching implications.

Alternative potential solution 2

In the past, we were using a multiple categories field. This was working for us in Craft 3, but when we try and use it with Craft 5, it is not working as expected. I have opened a bug report with Spicy Web in case we can fix this field and get this working with a multiple categories field.

[jamie-s-white]

Alternative potential solution 3

I wondered if it would be possible to switch to a card view to add the category group to the cards, but, category group is also not available for the card view:

Alternative potential solution 4

We are currently on Craft 5.7.10 for this project, but, there is also the potential for us to update to Craft 5.8/5.9, create a generated field where the contents is the category group, and then use that generated field in the table (although this feels a bit weird for us to essentially duplicate content which is already associated with these categories).

[brandonkelly]

Thanks for posting! I just added support for “Group” columns on category indexes, for Craft 5.10 (c86bd9a).