Several questions for a new user

[kenneth59]

1. How can you make additional pages for a catagory?

2. I will be selling clothes online, HOW to give the purchaser a choice of what size?

3. What can you do if you create a catagory with 50 products in it, then the catagory gets accidently deleted (, anyway to bring it back?

[burt]

1. Add a new category inside the category

2. use the options / attributes system

3. you make a regular backup of your database (and you be careful not to delete things)

[kenneth59]

thanks burt, 1 and 3 are solved BUT now #2. I have figured out slowly how to make a pull down menu for the sizes BUT they are not listed in the right order in the box when they are in the attribute section, small-medium-large-extra large is how i have them in the attributes section but they are not in that order in the pull down menu, what am i doing wrong.

AND

cant i set the attributes for one shirt and then apply them to all, surely i dont have to do that one shirt at a time ((, can you or someone please walk me thru this delima so i can go on to other things, everything about the oscommerce has been very straight forward and nicely designed, its just this shirt size deal thats getting me ((

[burt]

There is no sort order in the options system.

 

Install some other way of adding options, there is an Ajax

system that a lot of people use => http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/7888

[MrPhil]

Are they sorting the attributes in alphabetical order, rather than the input order? I seem to recall that being discussed a number of times before, but don't know if a solution was ever found. It might be possible to change the PHP code for the database query to sort by attribute ID or something, rather than attribute name (if that's what the issue is). Are the attributes sorting in any particular order? A sort ("order by") might have to be added to the query, or any existing sort modified (e.g., from ASCending order to DESCending order).

[jhande]

@@burt

 

Hi Gary,

 

Is the Ajax add-on similar to what was useful contributions for 2.2?

 

I can't remember exactly which ones now but one allowed you to sort the order in admin and the other showed the actual price.

 

Sorry I can't remember the contributions and I tried searching for the them with no luck. :(

[burt]

@@jhande - from what I recall, this one adds a little "ajax" box in the product adding/editing page which allows the user to set up the options/attributes on the product page. I think it possibly also incorporates a sort order...unsure on that though.

 

@@MrPhil - I think the options are done by name and the attributes of those options are unsorted (going by memory here, so could be wrong). The whole options/attribs system is in desperate need of a bottom-up rewrite, but that's highly unlikely to happen in 2.3 (and likely not in 2.4 either). v3 does have a different system.

[jhande]

@@burt

 

Thank you!

[kenneth59]

ok so how/where do i install this? or please point me to some instructions.

[jhande]

Usually the add-on downloads contain installation instructions.

[kenneth59]

thos one contained nothing but the php file