OBIEE and dashboard names

Hi everyone, I'm hitting an issues I've seen before, but can't dig up the fix.
We are using BI Apps, and there are a boatload of dashboards. When users have access to all of them, they get grouped in "Categories" on the page - i.e. instead of showing the 5 "Project Analytics" dashboards, it shows just "Project Analytics" and then when you click on that it lets you pick from the 5 ones under it.
But we've started removing access to all of the dashboards the users don't have - and now it's for example showing the 5 detailed dashboards. We'd actually prefer to keep them grouped under a high level "Project Analytics".
I know there is a setting to control this...but it's been too long since I've used it. Anyone know the setting I'm looking for?
Thanks,
Scott

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