[ic] How to create [same name] subcategories

[Webmaster @ Dreward.com]

Well...I have a similar setup on my store, and this is how I deal with it.

I sell little miniatures (fancy army men, basically), and each army has the
same four sections in it.

Codex
Blisters
Metal Sets
Plastic Sets

Two of the armies are Space Marines and Orks.  So I just set my database up
with the category listings (I'm running on a delimited text file)....

SpaceMarines_Codex
SpaceMarines_Blisters

Orks_Codex
Orks_Blisters

and so on.  If it can be done from the UI, I have no idea.  I did it in
Excel and uploaded it to the products directory.  Then, when you format your
searches, just make sure that you are entering the right category for the
sublisting that you're wanting.

I'm sure there's an easier way to do it...but that works.

bri


-----Original Message-----
From: interchange-users-admin@lists.akopia.com
[mailto:interchange-users-admin@lists.akopia.com]On Behalf Of Gina K.
Anderson
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 1:21 PM
To: interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
Subject: RE: [ic] How to create [same name] subcategories


John,

|Have "Dog Products" be the area, and "Food" be the category...

Well, that's actually how I have it (or had it), there is no link to either
Dog
Products or Cat Products, they are only headers for the categories. But I
still
don't think that helps me because I still have only one category "Food" when
I
need Food for dogs and Food for cats seperated. I need the admin to show two
Food categories (Dog Food and Cat Food) so the client can just choose which
category to put it in, however, the store needs to dsiplay only "Food" under
each 'area'.

Gina



|
|Quoting "Gina K. Anderson" <gina@sitediva.com>:
|
|> |How can I create subcategories?
|>
|> I still haven't bee able to figure out this little problem:
|>
|> Dog Products 	(main)
|> 	Food		(sub)
|> 	Collars	(sub)
|> 	Toys		(sub)
|>
|> Cat Products	(main)
|> 	Food		(sub)
|> 	Collars	(sub)
|> 	Toys		(sub)
|>
|>
|> I've pretty much thrown IC out of the loop because this is seems to be
|> so
|> difficult. Firstly, the admin needs to differentiate between the Dog
|> Food and
|> Cat Food, so a client can add products to either category without
|> needing to
|> make sure 'cat' or 'dog' is in the name of the product (so a search will
|> turn up
|> the right products-which doesn't always seem to work anyway).
|>
|> There are lots of stores that have something like this in the admin:
|>
|> Choose a category to add the product to:
|>
|> [drop down box lists:]
|> Dog Products
|> Dog Products->Food
|> Cat Products
|> Cat Products->Food
|>
|> It seems there is something in the data table structure that does not
|> allow this
|> to be done easily. Two people tried to help me out with this, but no
|> solution
|> seemed to work correctly.
|>
|> Gina
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