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[liamb2001]

Can anyone tell me how i make only bottom categories display products, for example clicking a category that only has sub categories shows the subcategories only but no products until you click the sub category

then obviously if a category has no sub categories it just shows produucts ?

[ADDISON]

Mike White has a good video tutorial for this on YouTube. It is about not showing categories with no products.

Check this out for more information than you asked: http://www.youtube.com/user/b8bym0nk3y

[liamb2001]

cheers but the only one i can find similar is how to hide an empty category (which isnt what im after)? is that what you mean or do you have a direct link ?

[ADDISON]

you initial question is confusing me. you have all tools to create a tree of categories and add product in what category you want.

for example:

1. create in root a category named Parent
2. create in parent a category named Child
3. create in Child a category named Grandson

When you add a product you have the freedom to allocate you product in

Root -> Parent
Root -> Parent -> Child
Root -> Parent -> Child -> Grandson

If you don't add products in Parent and Child, but only Grandson, you will have products only inside "bottom" category.

Is it correct what I am writing here?

[liamb2001]

Hi sorry, what i mean is i want each category to only display its own products and not any of its child's categories for example here

http://www.cufflinkstudio.com/Cufflinks/

There is no products in cufflinks only its child categories eg /cufflinks/casino

so i dont want products to show at all on that page BUT DO want them to show if i goto cufflinks/casino because that category does contain products

does that make sense ?

[ADDISON]

did you read the XC manual before? especially the part about creating categories? please do!

I have a root category in every XC, OK. Let's talk about the tree. You want to display products in some categories. All depend on the products you allocate to each category (even is a parent or child category).

[ADDISON]

http://demo.x-cart.com/demo/

In categories I enabled to show in Front-End CD-DVD-Video Category including all its subcategories.

I go to Admin -> Catalog -> Products and choose a product. You see "Additional categories" text area. Use Click to select multiple. In my case I select these categories/subcategories:

- CD-DVD-Video
- CD-DVD-Video/CD Audio
- CD-DVD-Video/DVD
- CD-DVD-Video/Video Cassettes

As you can see I am the one who controls in what category a product will go.

You cannot have CD-DVD-Video with only its products without listing its subcategory too.

One category/subcategory could have a

- parent category
- one or more subcategories
- one or more products

Mike's solution is not showing categories/subcategories with no products (this should be part of XC Gold 4.5.6).

[liamb2001]

What i mean is on the page i sent you, there are "products" underneath the sub category images.

i dont want the cufflinks page to display any products from any of its own sub categories

does that make sense ?

[ADDISON]

my dear friend. go in Admin -> Products and see every product listed there.

in Product Management you will see Additional Categories. Unlink it for that product related to Cufflinks category

[ADDISON]

you can also check with Admin -> Categories and click on Cufflinks. You will see the products listed on that page. Just remove them from being link to that category.

roger?