Parent Category (I want to hide field)
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Last Post: May 11, 2009 (RSS)
By rentittoday - May 9, 2009
Team Interactive Tools,
If you recall we have categories such as: Real Estate Rentals, Boat Rentals, Baby Equipment and more. The goal is to have our customers add there own inventory. There is a field called Parent Category. We dont use it. How can we hide it? That's all I got !
Thanks,
Jason Glass, Rent It Today www.rentittoday.com
If you recall we have categories such as: Real Estate Rentals, Boat Rentals, Baby Equipment and more. The goal is to have our customers add there own inventory. There is a field called Parent Category. We dont use it. How can we hide it? That's all I got !
Thanks,
Jason Glass, Rent It Today www.rentittoday.com
Jason Glass
Re: [rentittoday] Parent Category (I want to hide field)
By Dave - May 10, 2009
Hi Jason,
You can just erase the field if you don't need it, but be sure to create a backup of everything (MySQL, etc) first.
Looking at the "Baby Items" category it looks like everything was setup to use the category menu type, even though this may not be required, but then some of the records are listed as sub-items under other records. So if the site has been setup to use category menus (which allow records to be grouped under other records) then changing that might break things.
I'd recommend having a local working copy or staging/beta copy of your site and database where you could work on changes like this without risk of breaking anything. But essentially if you actually don't need that field you could remove it. You may need to switch the menu type as well to multi-record.
Hope that helps!
You can just erase the field if you don't need it, but be sure to create a backup of everything (MySQL, etc) first.
Looking at the "Baby Items" category it looks like everything was setup to use the category menu type, even though this may not be required, but then some of the records are listed as sub-items under other records. So if the site has been setup to use category menus (which allow records to be grouped under other records) then changing that might break things.
I'd recommend having a local working copy or staging/beta copy of your site and database where you could work on changes like this without risk of breaking anything. But essentially if you actually don't need that field you could remove it. You may need to switch the menu type as well to multi-record.
Hope that helps!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com
interactivetools.com
Re: [Dave] Parent Category (I want to hide field)
By rentittoday - May 11, 2009
Dave,
Thanks for the reply. They only listing that would be lost are the ones that choose the drop down "Parent Category" then they filled out the rest of the information about the rental. For 99.9 percent of our listings we did not enter anything into those fields. Whatever the default was we just left it in there. Let me know. Thanks.
Jason
Thanks for the reply. They only listing that would be lost are the ones that choose the drop down "Parent Category" then they filled out the rest of the information about the rental. For 99.9 percent of our listings we did not enter anything into those fields. Whatever the default was we just left it in there. Let me know. Thanks.
Jason
Jason Glass
Re: [rentittoday] Parent Category (I want to hide field)
By Dave - May 11, 2009
Hi Jason,
I'm not sure how the code is setup on the front end or whether it's card coded to require that field or not. I'd have your developer create a copy of a single section and then try removing that field and see what issues (if any) there are.
You have a big system and site so you want to have a way to "test" changes like that before you push them live.
Hope that helps!
I'm not sure how the code is setup on the front end or whether it's card coded to require that field or not. I'd have your developer create a copy of a single section and then try removing that field and see what issues (if any) there are.
You have a big system and site so you want to have a way to "test" changes like that before you push them live.
Hope that helps!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com
interactivetools.com