How to make an html based pallete

GoJS
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Hi,
I am having at present pallete where I have numbers of nodes design as:

but as per my present design I want to categorize the nodes in group where each node represent a particular category.
Like the picture shows below.Along with that I also want to have a search functionality in that pallate.

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Please suggest some way.

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Have you seen how the Palettes are used in a Accordion in tne Planogram sample? Planogram

Have you seen the use of Diagram.findNodesByExample, Diagram | GoJS API, in the Org Chart sample? Org Chart Static