Snippetcategories is still not decent

[WoutJacobs]

I'm struggling to fathom how a functionality as simple as snippet categories can go repeatedly wrong, so I'm just asking here just to check if it's not something else.

As far as I can tell, two/three new bugs have been introduced in 2022.5:

1) the button Snippet categories (Topic properties panel) does not work

Trying to switch a snippet to another category does not work. You have to manually edit the snippetcategories.xml file.

2) renaming a snippet causes it to revert to Default category

3) Editing snippets outside of RH causes snippetcategories.xml to delete itself

I can somewhat accept this one, but it's still fascinating to have everything straight up deleted (and replaced by a new file with only the renamed file) if you rename a snippet file in file explorer.

[Peter Grainge]

I just set up a quick test.

1. Agreed.
2. I didn't find that. Worked OK.
3. I didn't try that.

Was it working in Update 4?

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[Peter Grainge]

I have now tested editing the XML file. I had two snippets each in a different category. I swapped the two snippets over and reopened the project. Working fine.

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[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/RH-12808

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[Peter Grainge]

I edited a Snippet using EditPadPro and on reopening the project, it was all OK.

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[Peter Grainge]

@WoutJacobs Do you see the same issues in a new project? Just wondering if the problems you are seeing that I am not are because of upgrading. It shouldn't be but who knows?

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[WoutJacobs]

Thanks for opening a ticket, as for additional testing in a new project:

Starting situation: I have 5 snippets, 3 of them in Default and 2 in TestCategory

The dropdown to switch categories is confirmed to be useless as it does nothing:

(upon reopening snippet, original category is shown)

I change the file name of test4.hts (in category TestCategory) to test5.hts. This causes the newly renamed snippet to revert to the Default category and cause test4.hts to hang around as a lopped off part after the <categories> tag, for reasons that the mortal mind cannot comprehend:

(Fortunately, this does not cause RH to crash, yet)

I revert the situation by adding test5.hts back to TestCategory and deleting the weird leftover test4.hts part.

I now edit the file name of test5.hts in file explorer:

This indeed does not destroy snippetcategories.xml, so it's probably something else in my project.

What it does do, is add test6.hts as a new snippet in Default category. I can understand this as this is editing something outside of RH. But it's something to keep in mind.

[Peter Grainge]

What is different is my changes were referring to snippets that existed, I was just moving them around. You are adding a new snippet (5) and that will have no snippet to link to.

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