Additionally i want the category labels in the thumbnail view to disapper (they should be in the sidebar for sorting however), so really a “description-ordered” view:
0001-articleA
0002-articleB
Hi Thomas,
The way that the plugin filters items is according to what is present on each catalogue page, and not relative to every item saved in the catalogue. There are a number of reasons for this, since some users might have items appear in multiple categories, or change the order they display their categories.
If you don’t want to see the category labels or you want all of the products shown together, it might be better to use tags instead of categories. This way you could still sort your products with the sidebar but they would not be separated in the catalogue.
Best Regards,
EWD
Hi
This wouldn’t work as i use categories and sub-categories to categorize the articles.
Is there no way to say “display according to description” and leave the categories out of the main view (they should still be in the sidebar for sorting)?
Best,
Thomas
Hi Thomas,
You can hide the category description from the thumbnail view by setting the “Show Category Description” option to “No” in the “Basic” section of the “Options.”
To hide the category title from appearing in the thumbnail view, you would need to add the following to the “Custom CSS” box for your chosen catalog:
.prod-cat-category-label {
display: none;
}
When you say that you would like to “display according to description,” do you want to sort the different categories by their category descriptions or do you want the products sorted individually by their product descriptions. Also, how do you envision them being sorted, alphabetically or another way?
Thank you
Hi
I have articles named like:
Name: “0001-first article”
Slug: “1”
Name: “0002-second article”
Slug: “2”
And so on.
I want them to be sorted either by their slug “1” “2” … or by their alphabetical name “0001-first article” “0002-second article”. The outcome is the same then.
So all articles should be shown in the catalogue (i now know how to hide the category labels) independent of their categories, one after another.
If i click on one or more of the categories in the sidebar, only the contained articles should be shown (then sorted again like the schema above).
Hi Thomas,
The sorting by name feature does indeed sort your products alphabetically using their titles, like you want. However, this feature works on a page-by-page basis. As such, when you sort by name, it only sorts the products on the current page of the catalog. So, if a product named “0001-first article” isn’t on the first page, then it does not get sorted.
You could eliminate this if you get rid of pagination in your catalog. We are looking at ways to work around this in a future release, so that all products are sorted regardless of the page they’re on.
Thank you
Hello
Do you have an estimation when this feature will be implemented?
Best,
Thomas
Hi
I worked around this by not importing the categories (with the articles inside) into my catalogue but the products itself. I had to click all of the 500 products into the catalogue but now it seems to work.
Best,
Thomas
Maybe worth noting is that its now possible to add the products to a catalogue when importing via .xlsx. Just add another column “Catalogue ID” and insert the ID of the destination catalogue.
