Hello,

Is there an option to have categories when searching recipes? Similar to how nodes are grouped after clicking a tab?

I’m having an issue with the Wrangler node, where I have a lot of snippets. Searching for a specific one in such a long list is inconvenient. It would be really helpful to have some way to divide them into submenu categories.

Please do put in an RFE for that.

I personally would like to have a directory/folder/file like system one could open.

I find recipes are extremely useful for so many situations and as such like you have a very long list of recipes.

Hello! This has been (sort of) possible for a while now. If you are using the Recipe Builder (from tab menu), which you totally should to create and edit recipes, you just have the enable the Submenu options for Parm/Node/Decoration recipes, and name your submenu.

That said, the current limitation, which is not coming from the recipe side, is that Houdini can not generate dynamically scripted menu entries with submenus for our xml based menus. Therefore you will still get a long single list, but at least with visually separated categories. I would suggest to submit and RFE for that as the more people asking for it the better the chances are to get that fixed.

If you just want to add this to your existing recipes, you just have to add/edit the extra key in the recipe's json file under properties/submenu. That might be faster then re-saving all your recipes.

Oh, shame on me I didn't know about the Recipe Builder node!
It’s kind of an intermediate solution and I see it's actually a nice way to edit recipes ^^
I’ll submit an RFE, thanks for the reply!