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[DanUK]

I have a category that I have populated with subcategories and products. I want to create another category that is basically a carbon copy of the existing category structure with only the top level name changed.

Is there a way of copying the existing category structure and renaming it? Or is there a way of getting a category link on the category menu to point to another categoryid? So, for instance, I could have, "Spares and Accessories" and "Accessories and Spares" pointing to a single category?

I would simply add the products to an additional category if they weren't also in different and multiple categories so I can't multiple do the multiple select update thing

I've tried code in categories.tpl with:

{if $categories[cat_num].categoryid eq 100}<a href="home.php?cat=50">{$categories[cat_num].category}</a>{/if}

but all that does is create two category entries...any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Dan

[DanUK]

OK, I sorted this myself quite simply.

Basically, I wanted to have two separate links in the left hand side category menu pointing to only one category.

I did this by editing skin1/customer/categories.tpl and put an if statement in to read:

{if $categories[cat_num].categoryid eq 3}
<FONT class="CategoriesList"><A href="home.php?cat=5" class="VertMenuItems">Shoes</A></FONT>
{/if}

In this example I'm hardcoding the link to the "Shoes" category so that it points to category 5 (which is the existing category of "Shoes and Trainers", hence the need to have two links to it in the menu). The link appears after category 3 is displayed.

Although this is a low level manual hack it does the job!

Dan