# Help with Inventory app with Location and Category Hierarchies

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-inventory-app-with-location-and-category-hierarchies/58333>\
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**Created:** [February 23, 2023, 2:05am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-inventory-app-with-location-and-category-hierarchies/58333 "2023-02-23T02:05:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![joshecocaddy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/joshecocaddy/32/54763_2.png) [@joshecocaddy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/joshecocaddy)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 2:05am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-inventory-app-with-location-and-category-hierarchies/58333/1 "2023-02-23T02:05:52Z")

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Hello friends,

I am making an inventory app for my mechanic who is inventor-ising our electric bike workshop.

I have made hierarchies for the location of the items in the workshop with parent children relations for example:

Zones\>Main storage area\>Shelf A\>Container 1 (Container 2, Container 3 etc.)

And one for the item category for example:

Asset Type\>Vehicle Parts\>Brakes\>[Item]

but also have another category:

Asset Type\>Consumables\>Brakes\>[Item]

With the third level being common between Vehicle Parts and Consumables to discern between things we expect to degrade and those we don’t.

I would like to set up a choice component that my mechanic can click through to enter data into the correct category. This isn’t as much of a problem with the location choice as there are no shared children/parents, however it would be great if there is a practical solution for this so that we can split the different categories into parts and consumables for each sub-category.

Hoping someone has this figured out or can tell me what I’m missing.

Thanks in advance!

Josh

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**Author:** ![Uzo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/uzo/32/22639_2.png) [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 2:19am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-inventory-app-with-location-and-category-hierarchies/58333/2 "2023-02-23T02:19:28Z")

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Maybe do not make it a category, just property. Then you can use a filter to split the list.

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**Author:** ![joshecocaddy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/joshecocaddy/32/54763_2.png) [@joshecocaddy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/joshecocaddy)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 2:35am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-inventory-app-with-location-and-category-hierarchies/58333/3 "2023-02-23T02:35:39Z")

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What do you mean just property?

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**Author:** ![Uzo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/uzo/32/22639_2.png) [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 5:09am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-inventory-app-with-location-and-category-hierarchies/58333/4 "2023-02-23T05:09:51Z")

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Do not create a separate category Consumables… add Consumables as a subcategory so you can add another sort.