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tupurz
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Hi,

Sorry if this is poor excuse for a question in advance...

I have a client using agora right now. He sells motorcycle parts. In the current incarnation, he has about 100 categories of items and we are trying to pare this down to something viewable on screen...so we need to create more levels of hierarchy in the categories.

So I need to display 12 categories, allow these to be clickable and when one is selected, then I would display all the manufacturers who sell that type of part and then a customer would choose the manufacturer and then applicable motorcycle-specific parts from that manufacturer and category would show up.

For instance, someone is looking for a bumper for BSA 500cc motorcycle. My client would choose bumpers from categories, then choose Charlie's Bumper company and then he would select to see all of the BSA bumpers Charlie makes.

If that is too complicated a summary, I need to have three levels of hierarchy when choosing items.

Where can I find a recipe for this?

Thanks!
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scottcrew
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You will need to set up product pages with your manufacturers on them.
Then it will be a matter of "drilling down" to the products.

HTH!


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tupurz
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I guess I'm looking for the recipe for doing the drilling down part then...I can upload my vendors into a field in the database but how do I the system to display a page of vendors?

Using Version AgoraCart DELUXE Store Manager ver. 4.0K-4b Standard

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Ok...

I think I can get this figured out except for one thing. How do I specify for a particular category to use a specific edited product page?

Thanks for any and all help,
Shawn
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Shawn,
Are you hardcoding links or looking for a dynamic solution?


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Hi,

I'm going to statically setup a product page for each category and then setup my own to links to these pages.

My page:
http://www.kidsonquads.com/acart/agora.cgi?product=AXLES&ppinc=axles

Now this brings up almost what I want but the manufacture query is not finding anything...do I need to change something in the agora.cgi program?

Set it up as instructed...
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What do you mean by "Set it up as instructed..."?

When you set up a static page for each category, you will want to put the page in the 'html/pages' directory of the cart and call it using the following method:
http://www.kidsonquads.com/acart/agora.cgi?page=AXLES.html

There is a true Sub-category hack available for Pro Members. From what I am seeing on the page you referenced, things look a bit screwy... At least it's not set up the way I might do it. It looks like you have the product name in the Category field. In the Category field, I would use either the manufaturer or by types of parts.
IE: Categories by manufacturer: AC_Racing, DG, Douglas, etc...
categories by types of parts: Bumpers, Nerf_Bars, Grab_Bars, Rims, etc...

Then, I would use an user field for the manufaturer's name....
Your search drop-down doesn't work, because it's not set up correctly...
A search should be more like:
Code:
<form name="form1" method="post" action="agora.cgi">
  <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
    <tr>

      <td><b>Please select a sub category from the menu opposite
      <INPUT TYPE = "hidden" NAME = "cart_id" VALUE = "%%cart-id%%">
      <INPUT TYPE = "hidden" NAME = "page" VALUE = "">
      <INPUT TYPE = "hidden" NAME = "product" VALUE = "AXLES">
      <input type="hidden" name="ppinc" value="search">
      </b></td>
      <td><select name="keywords" id="k">
          <option value="." selected>Show All</option>
          <option value="subcat-rpm">rpm</option>

          <option value="subcat-shawn">shawn</option>
        </select>
        <input type="submit" name="search_request_button" value="Show">

If you are using a user field to hold the Maunfacturer info, let's say user 2 for this example, then the select name would be more like:
Code:
<select name="user2" id="k">


Stuff I am seeing on the page, leads me to believe that you do not have the correct information in the correct database fields. You have stuff in the 'image file name' field that should be in the 'description' field...

HTH!


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