Cats and Sub Cats

smudgeuk · June 24th, 2011, 01:35 PM

Hi,

many thanks for the install, working great.

I am now trying to set up the cats and sub cats, but running into problems as i go deeper

I want the following

England
- East Anglia
- Bedfordshire

Now the bedforshire is showing on the same page as east anglia, and it would be great if you clicked on east anglia and the places there showed only under east anglia instead of all the sub cats on one page, see link below

truckdriver-online.com/reviews/england/index5.html

smudgeuk · June 25th, 2011, 11:14 AM

anyone with an idea?

Chuck S · June 25th, 2011, 07:22 PM

You can set your cat depth to whatever level deep or not you wish under index options in admin.

smudgeuk · July 2nd, 2011, 12:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

You can set your cat depth to whatever level deep or not you wish under index options in admin.

No matter what depth i have changed this to it still shows the whole list in one page instead of in the sub cats, any chance you could take a look?

Chuck S · July 2nd, 2011, 10:24 AM

Your index only shows 3 parent categories so it seems your site is displaying correctly.

smudgeuk · July 2nd, 2011, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Your index only shows 3 parent categories so it seems your site is displaying correctly.

Yes that bit is correct, but if you look at sub cats inside the one parent

truckdriver-online.com/reviews/england/index5.html]England - Truckdriver-online Reviews

the essex and cambridge and that lot isnt meant to show till you click on east anglia....... they show okay when you click on east anglie, but shouldnt show when you go one depth down

Chuck S · July 2nd, 2011, 07:56 PM

set your catdepth to 0 so it only shows the parents.

smudgeuk · July 3rd, 2011, 02:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

set your catdepth to 0 so it only shows the parents.

Have now change the catdepth to 0, only to find that the 3 top cats dont show in the main index now?

truckdriver-online.com/reviews/index.php

so when you view the main index now it looks like there is nothing in there, but if you click on the box heading then it takes you to the sub - cats

Chuck S · July 3rd, 2011, 08:12 AM

well see thats your issue though the way you have it set up

It is working showing catdepth of 1.

That means there is nothing wrong. You have elected to show the first set of subcats with a catdepth of 1. That means your always going to show the first level of subcats with a depth of 1.

Therefore any parent category your viewing a list of your going to show one level down.

So really to display things like you want since now all your other levels display fine right you need to correct your index and have those cats not be contained within a category. Your working with nested categories.

smudgeuk · July 3rd, 2011, 12:59 PM

so you can only go down 2 steps in depth yes?

Chuck S · July 3rd, 2011, 01:12 PM

You can go down as many steps as you want. All I am saying is catdepth is a global variable and applied to all parent cats. Therefore with a catdepth of 1 you are saying all parent cats that contain subcats one level is going to show.

smudgeuk · July 3rd, 2011, 02:51 PM

Have now managed to sort it out, and is showing how i wanted it, which is fantastic.

Chuck S · July 3rd, 2011, 02:52 PM

No problem enjoy the holiday

smudgeuk · July 3rd, 2011, 02:57 PM

we dont get holiday, here, but forgot you got 4th of july celebrations, hope you got something cool planned.

Just so you know, all i had to do to fix it, was change allow products in top cat, for it to show how i wanted.

Chuck S · July 3rd, 2011, 03:14 PM

Hello ah okay yeah I did not see you where not from the states well in that case just enjoy the nice summer weather.

Yeah we its all summer here we just have some added fireworks.