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Topic: Edit Category - Parent Category Disappears

Posted By: padreick
Subject: Edit Category - Parent Category Disappears
Date Posted: 07-November-2013 at 5:36pm

When I go to edit a subcategory from the Control Panel, the Parent Category dropdown says <No Parent - Top Level Category>. When I click on the drop down, the actual parent category isn't listed. However, I will be able to see the original Parent category I was looking for when editing a different subcategory with a different parent.

It appears that the parent category of whichever subcategory I'm editing disappears. I can modify anything because saving will move the subcategory to the top level.

Any ideas?

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Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 07-November-2013 at 5:52pm

in modCata.asp, look for this code:

        <%
        cat_DropDownName="idParentCategory"
        cat_Type="0"
        cat_DropDownSize="1"
        cat_MultiSelect="0"
        cat_ExcBTOHide="0"
        cat_StoreFront="0"
        cat_ShowParent="1"
        cat_DefaultItem=""
        cat_SelectedItems="" & pIdParentCategory & ","
        cat_ExcItems="" & pIdCategory & ","
        cat_ExcSubs="0"
        %>

My guess is that the last line looks like this:

cat_ExcSubs="1"

Change the 1 to 0.

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Posted By: padreick
Date Posted: 11-November-2013 at 4:48pm

Greg,

That didn't end up being the issue, but it did help me out as the categories were top level categories and weren't showing up when cat_ExcSubs equaled 1. I'll have to keep looking, but thanks for the tip.

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 11-November-2013 at 4:52pm

Probably ought to file a support ticket then. It can't be very complicated.

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