Surprise,Category name is not being unique ! ! ?

Surprise,Category name is not being unique ! ! ?

by Ravishankar Somasundaram -
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Dear moodlers,

I am using moodle version 1.9.4 , faced a strange problem when testing categories.

Moodle is allowing duplicates on same category name. This is a flaw in the architecture because Category name is a mandatory field and its the identifier in many places programatically.

From usability stand point of view for

admin/course creator , its confusing regarding in which category the courses should be created or moved to.

student, its misleading and time consuming for a user to enter and check which category has his required courses when we have duiplicates.

have filed a tracker entry here please cast your votes or suggestions.
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