LocateProducts.asp category order

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   Having trouble locating where the category sort order is controlled on the admin form LocateProducts.asp.

Currently the order is sorted by sub-category, but I would like to amend this to sub-category, parent_category, as I have 2000 categories and alot of the sub-categories are the same, the only way you can tell the difference is through the parent, but these are all in sub_category order

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amscompanies Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 25-March-2010 Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote amscompanies Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: LocateProducts.asp category order Posted: 04-March-2012 at 9:42am
	Having trouble locating where the category sort order is controlled on the admin form LocateProducts.asp. Currently the order is sorted by sub-category, but I would like to amend this to sub-category, parent_category, as I have 2000 categories and alot of the sub-categories are the same, the only way you can tell the difference is through the parent, but these are all in sub_category order

Hamish Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12-October-2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 56	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hamish Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05-March-2012 at 3:44pm
	Hi, I'm not sure I understand the question. You can set the order for the top level categories and within each subcategory, but there is no sort order across both - they are independant of each other.
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amscompanies Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 25-March-2010 Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote amscompanies Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06-March-2012 at 10:29am
	Easy example to setup and show the problem: 1. Create 3 categories, Arsenal, Liverpool, Aston Villa (in that order) 2. Create a sub-category in ALL three called 2010-2011 3. Goto LocateProducts.asp and the cateogory dropdown will appear as follows: 2010-2011 - Arsenal 2010-2011 - Liverpool 2010-2011 - Aston Villa Multiple this over the 100 categories that exist (such as Arsenal, Liverpool, Aston Villa) I will have 100 versions of 2010-2011 * in the order in which they are added rather than the ideal solution of: 2010-2011 - Arsenal 2010-2011 - Aston Villa 2010-2011 - Liverpool Is this a config setting or a minor code change ?

Hamish Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12-October-2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 56	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hamish Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06-March-2012 at 5:46pm
	I believe you would be much better off using custom seach fields for the years. Putting that aside, if you want to tweak the code then for this particular drop down the code is in the includes folder in file pcCategoriesList.asp
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amscompanies Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 25-March-2010 Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote amscompanies Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07-March-2012 at 6:35am
	Thanks for that: Please feel free to take a look at my current site development: www.programmehut.com/store/pc I think the categories and overall performance are quite good, not sure I understand how locating a product would work with search fields though ?