How do I create group categories?

Store Builder Questions
1

How do I create group categories?



Example I have 5 groups of products: Group A,B,C,D & E



Each group has around 30 categories.



So I would like to show the 5 groups and then when you click on teh parent groups the subgroups show up.

2

Let me rephrase my question:



Is it possible without custom coding to make group categories?

3

Not clear to me exactly what you're asking… Are you asking how to setup 5 categories with 30 subcategories within each and assign products to those categories/sub-categories?



I've not seen the phrase “group categories” used so not sure what you mean.

4

My apologies for the confusion in my description - but you understood me perfectly.



I want top level categories with no products and the subcategories with products.



Is this easy to do?

5

Basic admin and probably the most common way to do category hierarchies. Knowledge base or user guide should help you.

6

Basically you have built your sub-categories already. You now discover you have a need to create 5 upper level categories for them.

Make your 5 new categories (at root level) and then edit each of your existing categories. Set the Location of the existing categories as sub-categories of one of the 5 new ones.

This will change your menu so only the 5 new categories will be in the menu, with your existing sub-categories under each.

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[quote name='Magpie Don' timestamp='1378399349' post='167780']

Basically you have built your sub-categories already. You now discover you have a need to create 5 upper level categories for them.

Make your 5 new categories (at root level) and then edit each of your existing categories. Set the Location of the existing categories as sub-categories of one of the 5 new ones.

This will change your menu so only the 5 new categories will be in the menu, with your existing sub-categories under each.

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Magpie Don,



Thank you, brilliant and amazing that I have been using CS Cart for years and never even noticed the location area.



Next step is changing the font size of the new category groups - as the new group categories are the same small font size as the categories with products and I would prefer the new groups to have larger fonts.

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[*][size=4]tbirnseth [/size][color=#222222]Thank you for your suggestion - in the past I did not have much luck with the manuals so I still don't read them much. But maybe they are now much better.[/color]

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