showing subcategories in category detail listing as well as category member products

[Jason Ling]

Anybody have any ideas?

Was looking for an answer and came across this old post:

http://lists.ofbiz.org/pipermail/users/2002-September/000189.html

>>From: ofbiz-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
>>[mailto:ofbiz-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Colin
>>Sampaleanu
>>Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:56 AM
>>To: ofbiz-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: [OFBiz-Users]showing subcategories in category detail listing
>>as well as category member products
>>
>>
>>Is there are easy or built-in way to have a category detail listing show
>>some subcategories (some sort of summary detail for each subcategory) in
>>the center detail area, as well as the present display of products that
>>are members of that category?
>>
>>I have a category hierarchy where only the lowest level actually
>>contains products. While the user can browse to the appropriate category
>>via the left side category browser, it would be nice if clicking on a
>>mid-level category showed sub-categories in the main detail pane, since
>>otherwise the main detail pane is pretty empty.
>>
>>One way I can think of doing this is to specify another detail template
>>for these categories, and in that template actually go an enumerate the
>>subcategories and display this. Seems completely doable, but I would
>>rather not get into this work if there is already a mechanism to do this.
>>
>>Thanks for any tips,

[Tim Ruppert]

I would totally be interested in seeing what can be done here as well.  
I have an app where I modified the sidedeepcategory.ftl to show a
preview of the other categories exploded to accomplish this - but it
only works proper in my case because everything is not nested too deeply.

There are definitely categories without products - where should some
other type of summary would be most useful.

Cheers,
Tim

--
Tim Ruppert
HotWax Media
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com

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Jason Ling wrote:

> Anybody have any ideas?
>
> Was looking for an answer and came across this old post:
>
> http://lists.ofbiz.org/pipermail/users/2002-September/000189.html
>
>
>  
>>> From: ofbiz-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
>>> [mailto:ofbiz-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Colin
>>> Sampaleanu
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:56 AM
>>> To: ofbiz-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>> Subject: [OFBiz-Users]showing subcategories in category detail listing
>>> as well as category member products
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there are easy or built-in way to have a category detail listing show
>>> some subcategories (some sort of summary detail for each subcategory) in
>>> the center detail area, as well as the present display of products that
>>> are members of that category?
>>>
>>> I have a category hierarchy where only the lowest level actually
>>> contains products. While the user can browse to the appropriate category
>>> via the left side category browser, it would be nice if clicking on a
>>> mid-level category showed sub-categories in the main detail pane, since
>>> otherwise the main detail pane is pretty empty.
>>>
>>> One way I can think of doing this is to specify another detail template
>>> for these categories, and in that template actually go an enumerate the
>>> subcategories and display this. Seems completely doable, but I would
>>> rather not get into this work if there is already a mechanism to do this.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any tips,
>>>      

[cjhowe]

We have this in our custom app...we've customized
categorydetail.ftl around line 57 to include the
following bit of code - this simply adds the
subcategories:



<#-- Place Subcategories above any products in Current
Cateogory -->
<#assign parentProductCategoryRollups =
productCategory.getRelated("ParentProductCategoryRollup")>
<#if parentProductCategoryRollups.size() != 0>
<table>      <tr><td><hr class='sepbar'/></td></tr>
<tr valign='middle'><td>
|
<#list parentProductCategoryRollups?sort as
productCategoryRollup>
<#assign curCategory =
productCategoryRollup.getRelatedOne("CurrentProductCategory")>
      <a
href="<@ofbizUrl>/category/~category_id=${curCategory.productCategoryId}/~pcategory=${productCategory.productCategoryId?if_exists}</@ofbizUrl>"

     
class="buttontext">${curCategory.description?if_exists}</a>
|
</#list>
 </td></tr>
      <tr><td><hr class='sepbar'/></td></tr>
</table></#if>
<#-- Custom end -->

--- Jason Ling <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Anybody have any ideas?
>
> Was looking for an answer and came across this old
> post:
>
>
http://lists.ofbiz.org/pipermail/users/2002-September/000189.html

>
>
> >>From: ofbiz-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> >>[mailto:ofbiz-users-admin at
> lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Colin
> >>Sampaleanu
> >>Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:56 AM
> >>To: ofbiz-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> >>Subject: [OFBiz-Users]showing subcategories in
> category detail listing
> >>as well as category member products
> >>
> >>
> >>Is there are easy or built-in way to have a
> category detail listing show
> >>some subcategories (some sort of summary detail
> for each subcategory) in
> >>the center detail area, as well as the present
> display of products that
> >>are members of that category?
> >>
> >>I have a category hierarchy where only the lowest
> level actually
> >>contains products. While the user can browse to
> the appropriate category
> >>via the left side category browser, it would be
> nice if clicking on a
> >>mid-level category showed sub-categories in the
> main detail pane, since
> >>otherwise the main detail pane is pretty empty.
> >>
> >>One way I can think of doing this is to specify
> another detail template
> >>for these categories, and in that template
> actually go an enumerate the
> >>subcategories and display this. Seems completely
> doable, but I would
> >>rather not get into this work if there is already
> a mechanism to do this.
> >>
> >>Thanks for any tips,
>