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The terms Categories and Categories are interchangeable in the site. Setting up categories is one of the most important aspects of planning your online shopping site. Most users of your catalog will use the category/sub-category list to navigate through your products. Because of this, you should think about your categories like your customers think about your products to make it as easy as possible for the customer to navigate your catalog.
From the Product Categories link in the administration navigation bar you are delivered the Top Level Category List. This can also be called the Major Category List. This is a list of the top level categories in your site. There is no limit to the number of categories you can have in your site. However, there is a practical limit of the number of categories a user will work through. We have limited the category list to two levels for this reason. Site users tend to get lost if they have to drill down more than two levels to get to a product list. Add New Major Category
General Category Information - All categories are displayed in the site "category navigation" by the Display Order No. To insure that you have room to expand it is suggested that you start your Display Order Numbers at 10000 and place your major categories at least 1000 apart. This will allow you room to add categories in the future with our renumbering your display order. For instance if Category 1 is set to 10000 and category 2 is set to 11000, you have ample room between the numbers to add other major and sub- categories. Example:
Custom Attribute Fields - Custom attribute fields are available for each unique category. These fields allow you to enter custom search criteria to build the Power Search feature of the catalog. When you enter one or more custom attributes in a category you will be presented with that attribute as an additional informational field in the products data entry area. When you implement the Power Search attribute of the site the user will have an option of searching by any or all of the custom attributes for each category. As an example, if you are selling autos you might enter make, model, engine, transmission, year and color as attributes. The user would then have access to the Power Search feature which would let them search by any or all of the criteria. If you are not going to use the Power Search feature, adding category attributes is un-necessary. Division: - Choose which division this category will be associated with on the Fast Find navigation section. Display Order No: - Categories are displayed in the order of the Display Order No. throughout the site. Name: - The name that will be displayed for each category. Description: - A short description used for internal purposes only. Image Name: - If you use an image for each category, enter the button name for this category here. It must include the .gif or .jpg extension. Images will need to be loaded in the _sitefiles/images folder on your site. Show on navigation bar: - Checking this box will allow the category to show in the category list on all pages. Normally, on the opening page only the major categories show on the category list. When you click a major category all sub-categories for that category also show. Clicking this box will force sub-categories to show all the time. It is recommended that only major categories be checked. Category Heading: - This entry can contain HTML and displays at the top of the page when this category is chosen from the category list. This can contain as little as a text heading or it can contain HTML for images and links. Category Attributes: LetMeShop includes a highly detailed search capability, Power Search. This feature uses the category attributes to build a search based on up to 10 custom attributes for each category/sub-category. For instance, if you have a catalog of autos, you could build a custom attribute list for cars, trucks, etc. These attributes might be:
Each product you enter would then contain data entry fields for each of these attributes. Power search uses these data fields to dynamically build a search engine. Attributes are unique to each category / sub-category.
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