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Originally Posted by BetterRed
But I do think there is a case for being able limit visibility of the other Managed categories with a similar option, particularly if ones VLs were sharply divided - eg Medical Journals, Adult Fiction, and Motorcycle Maintenance.
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The problem is that there would be an implied contract that while in a VL, changing a category (e.g., a tag) with the editor would change the category only in the books in the VL.
With Kovid's help I was able to make it work when changing an individual category item using the tag browser context menu, but that case is special in that we know we are dealing with a single category item and the user makes the choice of the scope of the change. Doing something similar in the category editor would require a checkbox per line (global or VL) and would require significant changes in the editor to apply edits to the db on an individual basis instead of all in one fell swoop.
User categories don't have this problem because there is only local scope.