How to change the Category assigned to a record

Hello @linlu,

Thanks for passing along your +1 for this feature request to be able to change the category of an item. While we can't make any promises, I'm happy to send your feedback to the team! 👍

I need to fix a few entries.

In the meantime, I'd suggest creating some new items in the category you'd them to live in and move your information across from the previous items.

If you have any other questions or feedback, just let us know!

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Please add my support for allowing items to move between categories. I have over 400 items in 1Password, and for expediency as a new user, I long ago developed the habit of clicking +New Item and then Login for almost every one of them.

I can hear you sighing at this all the way over here in Chicago (lol). I consider myself a power user, and when I bought 1Password years ago, I played with categories and found them not useful for me, primarily because some categories require fields that I didn't want to fill out or found unnecessary for my purposes. But I'd like, for example, to collect email accounts I created using the Login button so that I can click Emails in the sidebar instead of searching for tags, which I do use.

For better or worse, we live in a "Don't make me click twice" world, and end users like me expect software to let us do what we want our way.

Please don't take this as a complaint, because I don't mean it that way. I've used 1Password for years. I love it and I evangelize it to my friends and co-workers. One of my former supervisors was hacked two weeks ago. I set up a Zoom meeting with him and spent 20 minutes of my time demonstrating 1Password and describing its advantages. Next week I'm going to drop by his office for a hand-holding session to get things set up for him.

Sorry for the long note, but I thought it might be useful to hear the reasoning behind my request for this feature, which I suspect resonates with many others here.

Thanks for reading all the way to the end of this!

Hi @greggsewell1, thanks for adding your +1 here, as well as for your kind words! The details on your particular use case are very helpful, and I've filed your feedback with our product team, including all of the information you've shared here 😄

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Thanks for your response, 1P_Gem! I appreciate you letting me know that my comments might be useful to the devs.

Hi @greggsewell1, you're very welcome! If you have any further suggestions or questions, don't hesitate to reach back out 😄

+1 for changing category for me too please

Hi @nparis,

Thanks for your +1. I've included it for our team's consideration.

For the time being, the best course of action is creating a + New Item under the desired category type and copying the details over to that new item.

If you have any other feedback, please let us know!

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AliH1P,

I Read your reply to mwd01 on 9/22 and just have to say that it is a cop out. Maybe a corporate cop out but one still the same. I am a software engineer and it is very easy to change categories if you are using a legitimate database which I assume you are. Unless the developers went nuts with the database, you just change the category for the record. You don't have to cross-match fields, the user can do that.

It just seems odd that most competition can do this but you can't, even a simple password tool like SplashID can change the Category.

That's all for now.

As @JimmyBilly pointed out, such a feature is not rocket science, provided, the underlying database is decent enough.

I've found requests for this feature since 2015, but support stubbornly believes that "the best course of action is creating a + New Item under the desired category type and copying the details over to that new item".

The time wasted in copying/pasting this workaround (sorry, "best course of action") and finding excuses could have been spent developing a fix to a bug that was pointed out at least 8 years ago!

@JimmyBilly and @misamee

Thank you both for the feedback. I've passed along your comments to our product team so that they're aware that you'd both like to see the ability to change an item's category added to 1Password in the future.

The time wasted in copying/pasting this workaround (sorry, "best course of action") and finding excuses could have been spent developing a fix to a bug that was pointed out at least 8 years ago!

My colleagues and I on the support team aren't developers nor do we decide the product roadmap. Our role is to make sure that your feedback and requests are passed along to our product and development teams and, in the meantime, help you find the best way to use 1Password as it exists today. 🙂

-Dave

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