[ic] How to create [same name] subcategories

John Beima jbeima@reality.palb.com
Tue, 03 Apr 2001 11:50:27 -0600 (MDT)


Have "Dog Products" be the area, and "Food" be the category...



Quoting "Gina K. Anderson" <gina@sitediva.com>:

> |How can I create subcategories?
> 
> I still haven't bee able to figure out this little problem:
> 
> Dog Products 	(main)
> 	Food		(sub)
> 	Collars	(sub)
> 	Toys		(sub)
> 
> Cat Products	(main)
> 	Food		(sub)
> 	Collars	(sub)
> 	Toys		(sub)
> 
> 
> I've pretty much thrown IC out of the loop because this is seems to be
> so
> difficult. Firstly, the admin needs to differentiate between the Dog
> Food and
> Cat Food, so a client can add products to either category without
> needing to
> make sure 'cat' or 'dog' is in the name of the product (so a search will
> turn up
> the right products-which doesn't always seem to work anyway).
> 
> There are lots of stores that have something like this in the admin:
> 
> Choose a category to add the product to:
> 
> [drop down box lists:]
> Dog Products
> Dog Products->Food
> Cat Products
> Cat Products->Food
> 
> It seems there is something in the data table structure that does not
> allow this
> to be done easily. Two people tried to help me out with this, but no
> solution
> seemed to work correctly.
> 
> Gina
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