Ajeh Posted June 4, 2003 Posted June 4, 2003 In the Categories/Products is a Copy button ... you have the choice of Copy as Duplicate or Copy as Linked. Linked means that when changed in one Category it is changed in the other as it is the same product. Duplicate makes an identical product but it is now its own product and has no effect on the original.
Guest Posted June 4, 2003 Posted June 4, 2003 but when you link product (in mine at least), it actually duplicates the product number... See my thread. I really need help someone. Kind Regards Patrick
Ajeh Posted June 4, 2003 Posted June 4, 2003 A linked product is the same products_id as there is only 1 products_id in the table with that number. But, in the products_to_categories table there are two entries for the product one for each category.
Guest Posted June 4, 2003 Posted June 4, 2003 How can I fix this problem? So that my product appears 2 twice, but only counts as one...? Kind Regards Patrick
Ajeh Posted June 4, 2003 Posted June 4, 2003 What snapshot of osCommerce are you using and where do you see the double number of products listed?
Guest Posted June 4, 2003 Posted June 4, 2003 I'm new with OSCommerce, so I'm not sure. You can find my web site here (http://gamerevolution.co.nz/shopping/default.php?cPath=21_26_29). See how it says 68 on the left hand side, well I actually only have 34 products. Kind Regards Patrick
Ajeh Posted June 4, 2003 Posted June 4, 2003 Category counts are how many products in a category. Your categories technically have 68 You could turn off the counter in the top level categories so they do not count the linked products. You would have to edit the categories.php box to turn off the counts in just one area. Or just turn off the category counter all together as it's a speed savings. Your counts under What's New are displayed correctly, as it is counting products.
jasZ Posted March 27, 2007 Posted March 27, 2007 You could turn off the counter in the top level categories so they do not count the linked products. You would have to edit the categories.php box to turn off the counts in just one area. Hi.. i'm also having the same problem. Currently i have turn the Category Counts to False, but what if i really need the counter? How do i change the code in categories.php so that it wouldn't count the duplicated products? Thanks!
Guest Posted March 27, 2007 Posted March 27, 2007 hi, you don't need the counter, it adds extra DB queries that are unneeded and slows down your site... Can you think of any 1 reason why it should be turned on?
xbrianx Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 I just added a number of products to my store.. its about 300 different product codes but the file was about 2500 different because many of the same part number fit into different categories, ie printer models..some of the inks are in as many as 20 different categories or more. So after i uploaded all the products via easypopulate.. the store is insanely slow its bearly even a crawl would having the same product in different categories cause this?
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