How to Reorder Product sections with out loosing product or crashing actinic?

[JacobcJohnson]

Hi,

I am using v10.0.4

We have recently added Megamenu's to our website and need to re-order our product sections so they look better in the menu's.

We have found in the past when re-ordering menu's actinic either crashes or makes products disappear.

Can anybody suggest anything to make sure these problems don't arise?

Or

Is there any software that will enable us to reorder product sections outside of actinic?

Thanks,
Jacob

[Duncan Rounding]

You might find this useful:
http://www.mole-end.biz/acatalog/Cat...ting_Tool.html
There's a free trial too.

[JacobcJohnson]

I had a look at that product, does it allow you to re order in any order, or is it just for re-ordering in a certain order like alphabetically etc...?

[leehack]

There would have to be some sort of chronological basis as sorting by telepathy has not yet been mastered. If you have no set order and it's more as you want it, I think you just need to make sure all other programs are closed, proceed slowly with the moves and snapshot regularly. I've rarely had problems that way and with a snapshot you can always retrieve at least some of the work should the dreaded loss happen. Some people advocate a 'cut and paste' rather than a drag, worth considering also.

Remember the shift key which when pressed lets you put sections where and at which levels you want them.

[JacobcJohnson]

Ah I did not know that about the Shift button. Always annoyed my that I couldn't re order sections with out that section being placed in, instead of below.

Thanks for your help

[Jan]

lol, liking the sorting by telepathy, the tool sorts sections title or custom var, so if you want a randomish order the only way to do it is to addd a custom var to define the order, I don't think this is what you want but thought I would use this opportunity to show off for my clever little sorting tool :-)

Regards,