Categories in dropdown

3 posts by 2 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: May 20, 2011   (RSS)

By Toledoh - May 19, 2011

HiGuys.

I'm linking products to categories via a multi-value pulldown list.

With 10 categories and each category having mutliple sub and sub sub categories - it gets a bit confusing.

Especially that there a some very similar names. ie;

clothing / boys
toys / boys
gifts / baptisim / boys

all appear in the list a "boys"

Is there a better way of handling this?
Cheers,

Tim (toledoh.com.au)

Re: [Toledoh] Categories in dropdown

By Jason - May 20, 2011

Hi Tim,

One technique that I've used is to change the option label from "name" to "breadcrumbs". This will then show you the lineage of a given category. So you categories would the appear in the list like this:

clothing: boys
toys: boys
gifts: baptisim: boys

Hope this helps
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