Category - Bank Accounts and Savastore

[Amoochi]

Appears to me that the products being displayed by Savastore under the category of Bank Accounts seems to be somewhat wrong.

http://www.shopwindow.com/category.php?c=324

http://shopping.totalformat.com/category.php?c=324

I'd prefer to not have a category showing at all if there's no products for me to display rather than instead of having bank accounts showing, having a variety of computer related products.

[Adrian]

Hi Amoochi,

Thanks for letting me know about this. I have spoken to a member of our Account Development team, this should be sorted out shortly.

Cheers,

Adrian
SW Integration & Technical Support

adrian.botelho@digitalwindow.com
www.digitalwindow.com

[Andy]

I'd prefer to not have a category showing at all if there's no products for me to display rather than instead of having bank accounts showing, having a variety of computer related products.

This problem really annoyed me.
So, in the interests of getting abit of control back, I deleted the entire category tree out of my shopwindow and replaced it with one using a MySQL DB table .

In my table, each categoryName has it's ID and ParentID (allowing some natty deep categorisation) and an ENUM (1,0) called 'Active'

I only display those categories which are active in my tree menu.


I added a small snippet in category.php (I think) which would deactivate any category which displayed no products. It'd allow it to show, but deactivate it in the menu.

to avoid not displaying categories which eventually get new products (affiliating with new merchants is the main cause) I periodically reset everything back to 1 and allow Googlebot to test everything for me.