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Creating a View All Products Link

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Topic: Creating a View All Products Link

Posted By: Tim
Subject: Creating a View All Products Link
Date Posted: 12-August-2008 at 6:50pm

Hi All,

I've been struggling to find a way where I can create a "view all" link that will display all the products from multiple categories. Can someone help me out on constructing a URL that would allow that? Or at least point to some examples? I've spent some time and can't seem to nail this one.

Specifically, I want a link that will show all products in these categories:

http://stuffington.com.mytempweb.com/shop/pc/Type-c5.htm - http://stuffington.com.mytempweb.com/shop/pc/Type-c5.htm

Thanks,

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Tim Salam
Stuffington Bear Factory
~Teddy Bears Made in the USA~
http://www.stuffington.com/

Replies:

Posted By: patschraier
Date Posted: 12-August-2008 at 8:15pm

One way would be to create a "All" category and assign all of your products to that category. The easy way to assign all the products to the "All" category would be to use the global product changes, clicking the top all products and go to the bottom and assign the selected products to the "All" drop down category.

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Pat Schraier
www.patriciaschraier.com

Posted By: katharina
Date Posted: 12-August-2008 at 8:21pm

Try this one. Click on Marketing and then Create Store Map. That should do the trick.
Katharina

Posted By: Tim
Date Posted: 13-August-2008 at 6:18pm

I went the route of creating an "all products" subcategory in each parent category and then copied all appropriate products into them. I'm still convinced there's a way to do it without creating categories, for instance by constructing the "ideal" search results URL. As an example, I tried building the following search result URL that would produce the products from four different categories, but the resulting product set was a different number of products that the total of those four categories.

http://stuffington.com.mytempweb.com/shop/pc/showsearchresults.asp?idcategory=38&idcategory=39&idcategory=40&idcategory=60&priceFrom=0&priceUntil=999999999&resultCnt=12&order=4&Submit.x=32&Submit.y=9 - http://stuffington.com.mytempweb.com/shop/pc/showsearchresults.asp?idcategory=38&idcategory=39&idcategory=40&idcategory=60&priceFrom=0&priceUntil=999999999&resultCnt=12&order=4&Submit.x=32&Submit.y=9

Either way, my implemented solution works fine and at this point I'm quibbling. Still interested to know how to manipulate search result URL's correctly if anyone wants to input, though might be appropriate to be its own thread.

Thanks for all responses, it's appreciated!

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Tim Salam
Stuffington Bear Factory
~Teddy Bears Made in the USA~
http://www.stuffington.com/