How to change the Category assigned to a record

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.

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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+1 for changing category for me too please

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

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

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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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!

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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+1 to change category. I need to fix a few entries.

Hello again @CecilChesser,

Thanks for your question. I've merged your message into a related thread to keep things tidy.

If this item is used to store your login credentials for a credit card account, this item should remain as a login item. If this an item you're looking to use fill your credit details, you can create a new Credit Card item to save those details there:
* 1Password for Windows - Create and edit items
* Save and fill credit cards and addresses

Categories are templates used when creating an item and cannot be changed, but I've updated our internal request with the Product team, noting that you've expressed interest in a way to change the category type of an item.

If you have any other questions, let us know and we'd be happy to help!

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