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A question about the categories list in the catalog application left panel

Larry.Liu
Hi,

We have found that the category hierarchy tree in the catalog application
left panel is a little bit confusing, cause it displayed categories from all
levels into a flat structure, as shown below

Shoes
  Woman Shoes
  Man Shoes
    Man Sports Shoes
      Basketball shoes
    Basketball Shoes
Man Sports Shoes
Basketball Shoes

so if there are lots of categories, this display will become trivial  and
difficult for the user to see the actual tree structure,  I think a better
way is not to expand display all categories belonging to deeper level, that
is, in the former example, not to display categories "Man Sports Shoes" and
"Basketball Shoes" in the top view, so the tree displays as below and no
duplicate item will be displayed.

Shoes
  Woman Shoes
  Man Shoes
    Man Sports Shoes
      Basketball shoes


I am not sure whether there is any extra consideration to display the
categories tree as current style, so could anybody give some suggestion or
discussion on this?

Regards,
Liu Xiangqian

Wizitsoft Information Technology Ltd.
www.wizitsoft.com | (86) 010-62670653 ext 614
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Re: A question about the categories list in the catalog application left panel

BJ Freeman
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using rollup you should be able to create you own tree and depth.
https://demo.hotwaxmedia.com/catalog/control/EditCategoryRollup?showProductCategoryId=200

Larry.Liu sent the following on 3/10/2009 7:43 PM:

> Hi,
>
> We have found that the category hierarchy tree in the catalog application
> left panel is a little bit confusing, cause it displayed categories from all
> levels into a flat structure, as shown below
>
> Shoes
>   Woman Shoes
>   Man Shoes
>     Man Sports Shoes
>       Basketball shoes
>     Basketball Shoes
> Man Sports Shoes
> Basketball Shoes
>
> so if there are lots of categories, this display will become trivial  and
> difficult for the user to see the actual tree structure,  I think a better
> way is not to expand display all categories belonging to deeper level, that
> is, in the former example, not to display categories "Man Sports Shoes" and
> "Basketball Shoes" in the top view, so the tree displays as below and no
> duplicate item will be displayed.
>
> Shoes
>   Woman Shoes
>   Man Shoes
>     Man Sports Shoes
>       Basketball shoes
>
>
> I am not sure whether there is any extra consideration to display the
> categories tree as current style, so could anybody give some suggestion or
> discussion on this?
>
> Regards,
> Liu Xiangqian
>
> Wizitsoft Information Technology Ltd.
> www.wizitsoft.com | (86) 010-62670653 ext 614
>
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Re: A question about the categories list in the catalog application left panel

Larry.Liu
Yeah, the whole tree were created by setting of rollup, but if a categories
is on the forth level, then it will be displayed in the first level, second
level, third level and forth level of the tree, so I think maybe better only
display it in the forth level.

Regards,
Liu Xiangqian

Wizitsoft Information Technology Ltd.
www.wizitsoft.com | (86) 010-62670653 ext 614


On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:44 AM, BJ Freeman <[hidden email]> wrote:

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> using rollup you should be able to create you own tree and depth.
>
> https://demo.hotwaxmedia.com/catalog/control/EditCategoryRollup?showProductCategoryId=200
>
> Larry.Liu sent the following on 3/10/2009 7:43 PM:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have found that the category hierarchy tree in the catalog application
> > left panel is a little bit confusing, cause it displayed categories from
> all
> > levels into a flat structure, as shown below
> >
> > Shoes
> >   Woman Shoes
> >   Man Shoes
> >     Man Sports Shoes
> >       Basketball shoes
> >     Basketball Shoes
> > Man Sports Shoes
> > Basketball Shoes
> >
> > so if there are lots of categories, this display will become trivial  and
> > difficult for the user to see the actual tree structure,  I think a
> better
> > way is not to expand display all categories belonging to deeper level,
> that
> > is, in the former example, not to display categories "Man Sports Shoes"
> and
> > "Basketball Shoes" in the top view, so the tree displays as below and no
> > duplicate item will be displayed.
> >
> > Shoes
> >   Woman Shoes
> >   Man Shoes
> >     Man Sports Shoes
> >       Basketball shoes
> >
> >
> > I am not sure whether there is any extra consideration to display the
> > categories tree as current style, so could anybody give some suggestion
> or
> > discussion on this?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Liu Xiangqian
> >
> > Wizitsoft Information Technology Ltd.
> > www.wizitsoft.com | (86) 010-62670653 ext 614
> >
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