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Topic: LocateProducts.asp category order

Posted By: amscompanies
Subject: LocateProducts.asp category order
Date 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

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Posted By: Hamish
Date 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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Posted By: amscompanies
Date 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 ?

Posted By: Hamish
Date 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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Posted By: amscompanies
Date Posted: 07-March-2012 at 6:35am

Thanks for that:

Please feel free to take a look at my current site development:

http://www.programmehut.com/store/pc" rel="nofollow - 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 ?