Re: [mv] MV 4.04: Need help with subcategories please.

["Heinz Wittenbecher" <heinz@bytedesigns.com>]

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Thanks Ed,

The snippet will help, but the part I'm really stuck on is how to display
that secondary category to the user and to hopefully do that via another
cat.txt equivilant to avoid hard coding.

What I had anticipated/hoped for is a tree type selection so the when
Carburetor is selected or hovered over, all teh available secondaries would
show up.

At the moment I'm going to get by with making Carburetor go to a search page
instead of directly to the scan page.

Not elegant, but I think it'll work.

Thanks again for the help. Every little bit helps to uncover new wonders ;-)

Heinz


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> >I'm using "demo simple" as my starting point and have categories defined
> >such as Carburetors, Ignition, etc. What I need to do is establish a sub
> >category for each of the main categories. Example: for Carburetors I want
to
> >search for 2bbl, 4bbl, 750cfm, etc. I want to do this as one click,
> >selection box or mouseover, but am stuck. I did add another column in my
> >products file that the has the 2bbl, 4bbl, etc entries in it. Not using
any
> >SQL database, just default txt's for the moment.
> >
> >Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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> Well, what you are probably going to want to do is a coordinated
> search.  One-click style, it would look something like:
>
>      [page scan
>          co=yes
>          sf=category
>          se=Carburetors
>          sf=your_subcat_column_name
>           se=2bbl
>      ] 2bbl Carburetors[/page]
>
> ...to list all 2bbl Carburetors.
>
> - Ed L.
>
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