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meldrape
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Posted - January 25 2011 :  07:37:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hello, we went in to edit some products in a subcategory and the dropdown only shows parent cats. How can we show all categories? THe products are there if you choose ccategory and type in the number but my client is not a programmer and it's insane to think he'll have to do this every time he needs to edit a product in a subcategory. please let us know how to display all categories in the admin category dropdown. many thanks in advance.

carfin
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Posted - January 25 2011 :  09:29:03  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi,

I didn't like this restriction either so I changed it. If you feel confident to change code in a file then open shopa_editdisplay.asp in a text or html editor and save a copy as backup

Find the sub routine Sub Addcategories (approx. line 840)
Find this line:
catSQL="Select * from categories where highercategoryid=0 order by catdescription"

Comment out the where clause so it should look like this:
catSQL="Select * from categories" 'where highercategoryid=0 order by catdescription

Save and try it. You should now get a dropdown list of all your categories in the order they appear in the categories table.
I'm still on v6.50 but I think the routine will be the same in v7.0

Hope this helps,

Carrol
www.deanston-electrical.co.uk
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meldrape
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Posted - January 25 2011 :  19:40:21  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
That's great, Carrol, I'm confident working in the code so I'll give it a try and let you know. Many thanks again!
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chrisredco
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Posted - January 26 2011 :  13:28:43  Show Profile  Visit chrisredco's Homepage  Reply with Quote
What a beautiful thing! Helps so much when editing in Admin. Thanks for the tip.

Chris
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meldrape
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Posted - January 27 2011 :  18:48:30  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
absolutely works great for me, thank you very much!
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