*FYI* Category -> Sub-Category 5 item limit

I couldn't find anything to help rectify this problem, but managed to correct myself so I thought I'd share it in hope that it may help someone else.
OpenCart V.2.0.1.1
My client is setting up a store that has several child categories for products and ran into a road block while trying to add products to the 3rd and 4th level child categories.
From the admin panel under products, he would go to the "Links" tab, click in the "categories" field and type a few letters of the child category for that product. The auto-fill feature is limited by default to (5) items. No mater how he would type the child category name (even the full name) not enough would show to find the one he needed.

* THE FIX*
Browse to the Admin directory: GoTo: admin->controller->catalog and open category.php in your html editor. Scroll down to about line 590 (mine was actually 589) and look for the $filter_data = array(
The last line in that array limits the number of 'catalog/category' (the default is 5). Increase that number to display a larger list of child categories and it's fixed. I changed it to 20 for now, but I have a feeling I may need to go higher than that.

I hope this can help someone else out that's struggling with the same issue.

-Ron

Thanks, a nice little workaround.
Pretty stupid problem though

Thanks for the answer. As a newbie I have had fun trying to find out how to view more than 5 categories in the drop down box, but this fixed it. Now I can stop banging my head against the wall.

RdRacing, i think this is relevant and i browsed arround on the forum and 3-4 ppl had the same issue.

Maybe you can come in and comment with more experience on the issue here:
https://github.com/opencart/opencart/pull/2846

Regards

Brilliant - absolutely brilliant. I have lost two days alloted to my web site because of this issue. Why the hell its been limited to 5 I have no idea. Surely this should be changed in the download.

Thank you for your cure!!!!

have a virtual beer on me!!

Super, Thank you very much!

Perfect and thanks for sharing! This one was making me crazy as well.

I applied the change described above, but I set the limit to 0 (zero). By doing this, SQL returns all the rows in the query result and you won't have to make any more changes to increase the limit in the future.

extremely helpful, I wasted hours on this. Changed to "0" as well. thank you!

Also had this issue...this fixed it...can't believe it is set up as 5 by default...most first time users would be really struggling with this

Thank you for this fix. It also works on 2.3.0.2 but was on line 621. By the way leaving it blank also seemed to work but put in 40 just in case it left something hanging elsewhere.

There is also a nice little extension to sort this Here

But this does not work either on the Version 3.0.x
Probably developers blocked it again.
I have tried by adding from 10 to 90
Nothing work.
I guess it is a stupid piece of crap. I may have to change the app to something else.
What is the point of putting this kind of bogus stuff out there to waste people time!

Thanks for the fix. It works on Version 3 as well. The line of code to change in v3.0.20 is #596. Change it:

admin/controller/catalogue/category.php then find line #596 (or thereabouts - in mine it that line)

'limit' => 0

as per previous comments.

One of those Extensions could solve your problem for good:
Admin List Limit
https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... n_id=21393
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Dissable Autocomplete
https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... n_id=20490
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Hiya,
Thanks for this answer, it worked for me in the options limit, previousley set to 5, now set to 8
Thanks again