Category Tree

[Gazungle]

I have 4 categories ... but when you click on them (men's, women's, kid's) they each have separate sub categories. I want to be able to only display the subcats for that main category when someone clicks on it.

Could I use Weiland's module and then do a if/then statement ?

[wcw]

It sounds like you want to use the subcategory navigation instead of the tree when a category code has been selected. You can do that. You would replace the normal tree with the code used for the subcategory navigation. The only time the parents would display is when g.Category_Code is blank in the url or not in the url at all.

[Gazungle]

Ok, thank you. I was also wondering if your category tree module would allow the categories to build dynamically into a Select Menu instead of just listing text links? The thing is my customers wants to have a drop down menu for "search by brand" ... I'm trying to figure out a way (or is there a plugin) that would allow this work, and miva would auto populate the Select Menu. Thanks !!

[wcw]

You can autopopulate a drop down. I only have it on one page in my test store. http://www.pinemporium.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=PE
Look in the lower right column.

[Gazungle]

ok great. now to bring it all together :)

So, i need to have the subcats listed on the left, follow by line break. then have the "brands" dropdown menu, followed by a line break. then some custom links. Would this be do-able with your modules? Thanks !!

[wcw]

I thought the brands WERE the subcategories. I can't picture what you are trying to do. Do you have an image showing your concept?

[Gazungle]

I do :)

http://dankoziak.com/nav.gif

[wcw]

I would just hard code that tree and not use a 3rd party module.

[Gazungle]

I want to, trust me. But client doesn't know html at all and will be changing categories/products quite frequently.

[wcw]

What are the main categories and what are the subcategories?

[Gazungle]

Main Cats are Men's, Women's, Accessories, New Items, On Sale

Each of these have about 10 sub cats specific to them.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

You could tell the client that drop downs are not effective means for folks to browse<G>....seriously. Drop downs are great to conserve space, and reduce "eye-clutter" so better decisions are made (which is why they work great in forms) but they are very difficult to browse--maybe better to say they are almost the opposite of browsing.

Otherwise, lets hope William can come up with an answer using his module.

[anythingformycell.com]

1. Is there an option to wrap the text if it is too long? Some of our sub-categories have long names.

2. I need the option to drop down a custom field for the products in the sub-category is this possible?
Example: Main Category = Motorola Sub-Category = V180...then on this page I would also need a drop down list which populates product type customers are looking for: face plates, chargers, etc.. which we put in custom fields?


Could this be done with your module? Thanks.

[wcw]

No. There are no custom category fields capability in merchant 5.x

[anythingformycell.com]

Did I say category custom fields? Sorry if I did...I meant product fields..

Long story short we need a module that will have the capability to create a drop down menu which lists custom product fields for the type of product....

Two examples:

If you have a product list page for a particular category for say t-shirts you may want a drop down for the brand (or manufacturer) of course there would be other ways to sort if you wanted to begin with but for example purposes how would you do this?

Example 2 (ours):

Need a drop down menu on a sub-category page that lists all the product types?

Miva doesn't support anythng like this so I need a module...probably custom module...Anyone got any ideas?


Thanks for all the support.

[PicturesqueWeb]

Take a look at what I did at http://www.barclaycrocker.com in the lower left for a Manufacturer listing. It's not a perfect solution, but it did the job by listing manufacturers in an iframe with links to the search page. It's pointing to a file that the user learned how to edit even though they don't know html. They know enough to copy/paste and change the manufacturer name. Miva search does the rest.