Sortable Categories on per Entry basis

Question

I've been searching all over for this and have been coming up short unfortunately. Does anyone know if it's possible with in Craft CMS 3 to allow custom sorting of categories on a per entry basis?

For instance, maybe one entry is:

• Category 1
• Category 2
• Category 3
• Category 4

And on another entry, the admin orders the categories as:

• Category 3
• Category 4
• Category 2
• Category 1

If not available in Craft's core functionality, does anyone know of a custom category field type that allows this?

Thank you!

Evan

Answer 1

This isn't possible using Craft's Categories since Categories are a hierarchical structure and will always keep the order they are set in the Category Group when they are added to a category field.

One way around this limitation is to use a channel of entries in place of categories, since it is possible to drag and drop the order of related entries in an entries field.