View All Categories

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View All Categories

Your categories are containers for your listings. Assigning categories to your listings organise better your site and make it easier for web users to locate the listings you put on yout site. Think of categories like folders on your computer and the listings the items contained with the folders. Listings can appear in more than one category.

You can rename categories to whatever you wish in the dictionary.
  Active State   In-active State Click Action
Active Not-active Click icon to change
(Social Network Only)
Category is assigned as a profile category and can only be attached to profile listings.		 (Social Network Only)
Category acts as normal and can be selected to listings but not profiles.		 Click icon to change

Tree View
Click button to render categories as a tree view to see how categories are nested and related together. There may be a slight render delay if the site contains many cateogories.

Developer View
For easy setting up placeholders where we need access to the cateory ID this view displays the ID of the top level category which will be need in placeholders.


Update Order Direct on Page
Quickly update order on page - enter value direct (save is automatic)

Add
To Add a new Category click

Search by keyword
Enter search term in text box in navigation area and click to search.


Sort By
You can sort the results by
[N/A] Show All Categories
[List of Categories] Filter and show only sub categories for the selected category

Sort By Results are automatically saved against your user profile.


Title
The Category title


Path
Category or navigation system for web users to locate listings.

Selecting Web user will not have to click link to locate listings
Selecting  B Web user will click link B to locate listing
 Selecting B C Web user will click link B then C to locate listing
Selecting B C D Web user will click link B then C then D to locate listing



Top level category order
If displaying categories in top menu setting the correct order here will highlight the top menu depending on which category you are in.

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Delete
To delete Category category click box. This will highlight Category category row and place a tick in the box.
You can select multiple Category categories to delete.

Click [Delete Selected] to deleted selected.


After 'delete' the category cannot be recovered. This action is permanent.



Further Recommended Links
The Dictionary
Assigning Categories to Users



Updated on: 03/05/2020 16:43:18

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