Hiding a Specific Category from Search

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   I have a unique issue that worked when the cart was simple back about 4 versions ago.  I am happy with all the revisions but now something that was simple is much harder to do.
I need to HIDE a SPECIFIC Category and ALL of the sub category PRODUCTS from being SEARCHED on.  I have the category hidden from the public (wholesale only) so I can't have the category viewed at all either.

So I need:

To NOT see a specific Category in the navigation
To NOT have anything within that specific Category be able to be found with a search
BUT to HAVE all the products in that category visble by links.  So if I had a direct link to that product it would show.
If I simply hide a catgory it also hides the products.  

Is this possible with version 4.0?

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hollehock Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 24-January-2009 Location: Chicago, IL Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote hollehock Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Hiding a Specific Category from Search Posted: 22-December-2009 at 4:23pm
	I have a unique issue that worked when the cart was simple back about 4 versions ago. I am happy with all the revisions but now something that was simple is much harder to do. I need to HIDE a SPECIFIC Category and ALL of the sub category PRODUCTS from being SEARCHED on. I have the category hidden from the public (wholesale only) so I can't have the category viewed at all either. So I need: To NOT see a specific Category in the navigation To NOT have anything within that specific Category be able to be found with a search BUT to HAVE all the products in that category visble by links. So if I had a direct link to that product it would show. If I simply hide a catgory it also hides the products. Is this possible with version 4.0?

ProductCart Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group ProductCart Team Joined: 01-October-2003 Status: Offline Points: 135	Post Options Post Reply Quote ProductCart Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22-December-2009 at 6:12pm
	This can be accomplished with a small code change. For details, please see the ProductCart documentation at: http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/how_to/links_to_hidden_products
	The ProductCart Team Home of ProductCart shopping cart software

hollehock Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 24-January-2009 Location: Chicago, IL Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote hollehock Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22-December-2009 at 7:34pm
	Thank you - that is about what we need to do. I did as the code/link indicated and now I'm getting a "500 internal error" because the links won't display at all for anything in the hidden category. It seems like a simple fix ~ however I followed step by step...did I over look something that may not have been in the instructions?

Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22-December-2009 at 7:40pm
	A - check your advanced browser settings and uncheck "show friendly http error messages" B - commented out the first "on error resume next" in /includes/opendb.asp Do the above and you may have better information as to what the real error is.

stsomeware Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 15-April-2009 Location: Orlando, Florid Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote stsomeware Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22-December-2009 at 10:10pm
	When we add the code referenced in the link: http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/how_to/links_to_hidden_products but now get an error on all products: Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a03f6' Expected 'End' D:\WEB\THELIFEGUARDSTORE.COM\PRODUCTCART\PC\../../productcart/pc/inc_footer.asp, line 48

Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22-December-2009 at 10:26pm
	Well, somewhere in the page you have a mis-matched if/end if pair. Without seeing the code, it's not possible to determine exactly where, but that's what you need to be looking for. Hopefully you have the prior version of the page as a backup. I'd suggest you use something like www.compareandmerge.com (other such tools are also available) to compare the current and altered versions of the page - then try to identify where an "end if" was lost. BTW, if you are new to PC, you will find that it is helpful to your client's SEO potential by renaming the "productcart" folder to some word (or words) that would be the most important keyword in the store.

ProductCart Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group ProductCart Team Joined: 01-October-2003 Status: Offline Points: 135	Post Options Post Reply Quote ProductCart Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23-December-2009 at 3:20am
	We updated the code in the WIKI. There was an "end if" missing at the end of the last block of code. http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/how_to/links_to_hidden_products#productcart_v4
	The ProductCart Team Home of ProductCart shopping cart software

hollehock Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 24-January-2009 Location: Chicago, IL Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote hollehock Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23-December-2009 at 10:43am
	Greetings. We got everything to work, preview...etc. Thank you! Last issue....I have this tested in 3 browsers on the Macintosh and the preview works fine. I have it tested in 5 browsers on my PC on the desktop and the preveiw works fine. BUT on my laptop, NOTHING previews. I know it's now computer related but at the office who the site is being built for has the same issues. One computer can see it in IE and one computer can't. all are on IE8...history cleaned out...etc. Thoughts?

Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23-December-2009 at 11:02am
	I've looked at http://www.thelifeguardstore.com/productcart/pc/home.asp in IE8, FF3 and Safari (on XP). I can view the site just fine. Perhaps if you were to get a screen capture that would help us understand what you are looking at. Just to be clear, you are saying that nothing whatsoever appears? Is this Win7 by any chance?

hollehock Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 24-January-2009 Location: Chicago, IL Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote hollehock Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23-December-2009 at 11:28am
	Disregard previous posting...we have it all figured out! Thank you all so much! Merry Christmas!