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Product Category Hierarchy
I'm working with a large product category hierarchy used for drilling down to
very specific products. I've represented the categories in ProductCategory,
and the hierarchy in ProductCategoryRollup. When I go into the Catalog tab
to use the Browse Catalog window on the left side, all the categories
appear. Is this right? Should only the top categories appear and allow me
to drill down there, or is that only from the actual eCommerce application?
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Re: Product Category Hierarchy
Posted by Ashish Vijaywargiya <vi...@gmail.com>.
Demo data can be taken from DemoProduct.xml file for reference.
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Ashish
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Rashko Rejmer <rr...@iguanait.com> wrote:
> Hi Milton,
>
> This is not the usual behavior. Probably your category organization is
> wrong. Maybe this document will help you to organize your catalogs and
> categories in proper way:
> http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBENDUSER/Apache+OFBiz+Business+Setup
> +Guide#ApacheOFBizBusinessSetupGuide-catalogCategoryProductSetup<http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBENDUSER/Apache+OFBiz+Business+Setup+Guide#ApacheOFBizBusinessSetupGuide-catalogCategoryProductSetup>
>
> The most important sentence in this part of the document is "...Browse
> Root (One): this category will be the parent category of all of the top
> level browse categories for the catalog. It will not be visible to the
> customer, but it's children will be the main or top-level browse
> categories."
>
> So you have to create one category that will be associated with your
> catalog as "Browse root". Then you have to create your top level browse
> categories that should be connected to your browse root category - using
> ProductCategoryRollup entity. The top level browse categories should not
> be associated with your catalog.
>
> You also can check the demo data. It will help you to get the idea how
> to create organize your categories.
>
> Regards,
> Rashko Rejmer
>
>
> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 08:53 -0700, MiltonClark wrote:
> > I'm working with a large product category hierarchy used for drilling
> down to
> > very specific products. I've represented the categories in
> ProductCategory,
> > and the hierarchy in ProductCategoryRollup. When I go into the Catalog
> tab
> > to use the Browse Catalog window on the left side, all the categories
> > appear. Is this right? Should only the top categories appear and allow
> me
> > to drill down there, or is that only from the actual eCommerce
> application?
>
>
Re: Product Category Hierarchy
Posted by Rashko Rejmer <rr...@iguanait.com>.
Hi Milton,
This is not the usual behavior. Probably your category organization is
wrong. Maybe this document will help you to organize your catalogs and
categories in proper way:
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBENDUSER/Apache+OFBiz+Business+Setup
+Guide#ApacheOFBizBusinessSetupGuide-catalogCategoryProductSetup
The most important sentence in this part of the document is "...Browse
Root (One): this category will be the parent category of all of the top
level browse categories for the catalog. It will not be visible to the
customer, but it's children will be the main or top-level browse
categories."
So you have to create one category that will be associated with your
catalog as "Browse root". Then you have to create your top level browse
categories that should be connected to your browse root category - using
ProductCategoryRollup entity. The top level browse categories should not
be associated with your catalog.
You also can check the demo data. It will help you to get the idea how
to create organize your categories.
Regards,
Rashko Rejmer
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 08:53 -0700, MiltonClark wrote:
> I'm working with a large product category hierarchy used for drilling down to
> very specific products. I've represented the categories in ProductCategory,
> and the hierarchy in ProductCategoryRollup. When I go into the Catalog tab
> to use the Browse Catalog window on the left side, all the categories
> appear. Is this right? Should only the top categories appear and allow me
> to drill down there, or is that only from the actual eCommerce application?