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If I wanted to place the side site navigation on the product details page, which "side" html would I use? The one from the product listing page doesn't work there and if I take the one from any other page, such as "home" it ends up displaying only the subcategories in the side and not the main category list.
Is it possible to put the side site navigation on the Details page or am I attempting to do something where codes end up colliding?
The goal is that I want the navigation menu for the top level and sub level categories to display like on the product listing pages.
Thanks in advance!
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I couldn't get this to happen either. There are variables in the product list categories code that are not listed or explained in the wiki such as $TopCategory and $Category.ID
The category code from the home page doesn't work on product details either. It only pulls the sub cats from the category that the product is listed in. I thought about just hard coding the links to my top categories.
It would be good to have all the categories on the details page for the benefit of customers who may surf in from google or other search engines and land on the product details page and the first page on your site.
~Gayla
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I completely agree with you. If they land on a product page they will be under the impression that the sub categories are the ONLY products available in the entire store. I know I personally expect to see the entire category tree on all pages of a website unless a particular page is completely irrelevant to the site content.
jubilee (6/17/2008)
It would be good to have all the categories on the details page for the benefit of customers who may surf in from google or other search engines and land on the product details page and the first page on your site.
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Thanks! I sure wish I had asked this before now as I wasted an entire day trying to get it working. It was toying with my mind because I had it working several different times but after navigating away from the product and then back a couple times while working on other parts of the code and css, I would notice it didn't *stick* and I'd be back to square one.
This is the first place I have ever seen that you couldn't access all categories from a product page and it really struck me as odd. Now add "annoying" to that list. LOL
I have visited many other bisi sites while reading this forum and the only thing I found annoying was having to return to the home page by clicking the logo in order to see what else they had for sale. Breadcrumbs are nice, but few people notice or use them. Even if all you could get was the top category and not the subs (because they only need to show on the product list page anyhow) it would be a major plus in my book.
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Even if all you could get was the top category and not the subs (because they only need to show on the product list page anyhow) it would be a major plus in my book.
If you using custom templates, you can put some hard coded links to your top level categories on the details page. Of course, it wouldn't update. If you added more categories, you'd have to go back and add more links but at least they would be there. I think if you put them in a #side div and adjusted the size of the other divs on the page, it might display very similar to the categories on the other pages. On my rhinestone site, you can see an example of coded links in a sidebar. They are listed under the categories as "Fun Stuff".
I've been intending to do this for some time now and you guys have got me thinking that I need to get it done! I do think it's rather important.
If someone comes up with a good solution, please post and let us know what you've done!
~Gayla
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GMTA! I went and did exactly that just as soon as I got done posting here. I just did the and - tags exactly as they already were on any other page except to hard code the urls in. Worked like a charm and you can't even tell it's any different than the sidebar on any other page.
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I'm wondering ......
If the top level categories are hard coded into the product details page, is it then possible to use a variable to have the sub categories show up under the selected top level?
<---- pulling hair out trying to get this to work!
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Sounds reasonable to me. When I put the #side html from the home page into a product details page, it pulled the subcategories in the top level cat that the product was listed in. so there is apparently some sort of category identification possible from the details page. I think you'd have to experiment with the coding on the sample templates though because the variables that would seem to be necessary are not listed or defined in the wiki.
... I can hardly STAND it that I don't have time to work on this right now.  I'm a compulsive problem solver but I'll just have to wait until the shipping gets done and the groceries are bought before I can try it!
~Gayla
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