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How do you use Auto-complete Categories?

In BDD specification a field "Auto-complete category" is available. Does anyone use this feature and can give me some examples? I am wondering why it is available on Shared Space level only? I have some suggestions for category names for a single project, but not on a higher level.

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    Did you check the documentation?

    Re-use steps using the auto-complete mechanism

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    I already checked the documentation. However, it is kept very short. 

    Our keywords don't differ between testing environments, but between parts/areas of the test object. And these are different between projects.

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    I understand.

    Let me try to assist.

    1. Define categories that are relevant for your case, by parts/areas of the app under test.

    2. Create at least one BDD feature for each of those categories, set the two fields (auto-complete category & Contributes to auto-complete).

    3. go to another BDD feature with the same category (but not necessarily contributing to the auto-complete)

    4. Press ctrl+space

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    Probably, I should explain my question with an example:

    Project A may want to use categories "natural person", "legal person", "address data" and "contacts".

    Projekt B would like to differ keywords by "customer", "address data", "order", "article", "inventory", "shipment" and "bill". 

    That would be 10 categories in one list and a category "address data" used by both projects because of Shared Space level.

    Challenge One: A test analyst working for Project A has to know, that keywords concerning customers are found in categories "natural person" and "legal person". Category "customers" shouldn't be selected in this project.

    Challenge Two: Keywords in "address data" may be similar, but not all the same. So test analyst adding a new test has to know, which keywords from this category are fitting its test object.

    Challenge Three: There may be more projects and categories per project resulting in an even longer list. I may add projekt name to category, but do I get a well-arranged list and good usability?

    I wonder, how other users implemented this feature? Which categories do you use?