Displaying all products even in Sub Categories

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   Hi,

I'm in the process of setting up Product Cart, and one part of my brief is to be able to display all products in a root category - even if they're in a sub category.

For example:

Root |

      -> Category A

                   |

                    -> Product A

                    -> Product B

                    -> Product C

      -> Category B

                   |

                    -> Product D

                    -> Product E

Displaying the Root category would show products A - E, while showing either Category A or B would only show the products that are in that category...

I can't seem to find any way of doing this in the settings - do I need to hack this about myself?

Many thanks,

Craig

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palagrim Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 27-January-2009 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote palagrim Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Displaying all products even in Sub Categories Posted: 29-January-2009 at 11:02am
	Hi, I'm in the process of setting up Product Cart, and one part of my brief is to be able to display all products in a root category - even if they're in a sub category. For example: Root \| -> Category A \| -> Product A -> Product B -> Product C -> Category B \| -> Product D -> Product E Displaying the Root category would show products A - E, while showing either Category A or B would only show the products that are in that category... I can't seem to find any way of doing this in the settings - do I need to hack this about myself? Many thanks, Craig

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: 29-January-2009 at 11:25am
	Could you give us the context of this please? Are you talking about the category navigation generator?

palagrim Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 27-January-2009 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote palagrim Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29-January-2009 at 11:30am
	Hi Greg, I'm referring to the pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=xxx page. I need it to display all products from all sub categories that are under idCategory xxx... So, using my example above, ViewCategories.asp?idCategory=(rootID) would display all products (A-E), ViewCategories.asp?idCategory=(CatB-ID) would show D-E... The navigation thing is fine as it is... It's the main page content I'm looking at... Does that make things a bit clearer?

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: 29-January-2009 at 11:42am
	Well, using this demo store which has nested categories, if you look at the following two links, is that what you have in mind? http://pc3x.demos.greybearddesign.com/pc312standardqo/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=2 http://pc3x.demos.greybearddesign.com/pc312standardqo/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=4 Assuming one didn't have subcategories, as shown on the first link, would this address your requirement?

palagrim Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 27-January-2009 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote palagrim Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29-January-2009 at 12:02pm
	What I'd like is when you're viewing Category 1 you see all products under that category all the way from Product 1 to "SKU 9 - Very Deep Nesting" Essentially tunnelling all the way through the sub categories and displaying the products found in each... Then as you click on the sub categories, it acts as a filter? So, as another example, you could have: Books -> Art > Drawing > Drawing Book 1 > Drawing Book 2 > Painting > Painting Book 1 > Painting Book 2 > Paper > Card > Card Book 1 > Card Book 2 > Crepe > Crepe Book 1 -> History > 1950 > 1960 Viewing the "Books" category would display all books throughout the category tree... Viewing the Art category would show all Art books... Viewing Drawing would show all Art Books that were part of the Drawing category... Viewing Paper would show all Books in categories below Paper (Card and Crepe)

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: 29-January-2009 at 12:52pm
	You can do this without code modifications by assigning products to multiple categories (the parent and one or more subcategories). Use the Import Product Wizard to quickly assign multiple products to multiple categories. You can import two category assignments at a time for any product. We hope this works for you. Edited by earlyimp - 29-January-2009 at 12:52pm
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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: 29-January-2009 at 1:12pm
	Sorry for the delay - got pulled away a few minutes. Yes, as EI has suggested, and I was preparing earlier to reply - just do some experiments assigning your products at each level. If you have products assigned at the parent category as well as the subcategory, you will see that they appear under both selections.

palagrim Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 27-January-2009 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote palagrim Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30-January-2009 at 7:08am
	Thanks guys! :)