relationship of Ad Type to Category

[warnmar10]

I have three ad types defined: For Sale, Want to Buy and Help Wanted.

There are four categories defined: For Sale, Pets, Real Estate and Employment.

If I start a new ad, select ad type For Sale at step 1, at step 2 I have a drop down menu with the four categories listed.

If I start a new ad, select ad type Want to Buy or Help Wanted on step 1, at step 2 their is nothing to select in the category drop down menu.

Did I break it?

If you go to my site, the classified link takes you to the old classified software. My PhotoPost Classified installation is in /classified/

[Chuck S]

In Admin => Global Options turn off the category cache and let me know if it works.

[warnmar10]

Thank you for the prompt reply.

The category cache was already set to no. Is there anything else I should check?

[warnmar10]

By editing the categories I was able to set the ad type to category.

If I select 'For Sale' as my ad type, I can select from three categories into which I want to place the ad.

If I select 'Want to Buy' or 'Help Wanted' I can't choose a category but the one I picked in category edit shows up as the only selection in the drop down menu now.

[Chuck S]

No cats will appear their till you assign them to those types. If you do not wish to use those types turn them off in admin => ad types.

I am not sure what your reporting as you say you cant see them now you say you can see them in the drop down.

Please post a url and test login

[warnmar10]

I apologize, I confused the issue unnecessarily.

login * password *

http://*.com/classified/index.php

Follow the Place An Ad link and select For Sale then Submit.
You should see a drop down which now lets you select any of the 4 categories I have defined.

Now starting from here again: http://*.com/classified/index.php
Follow the Place An Ad link and select Want To Buy then Submit.
You should see an unpopulated drop down selector.

[Chuck S]

Correct you need to set categories to helpwanted or wanted in admin edit categories and they will appear where you want

[warnmar10]

OK I did that.
Now, step 1 pick ad type.
Step 2 pick category. There is only one option in the drop down category selector, which one depends on the ad type selected.

So each category can have only one ad type? I can't have a For Sale type and a Want to Buy type in the same category?

[Chuck S]

No you can not have category use more than one template type you need to use 3 different categories