Organisation of products in categories

[mazyd2005]

Hi guys,

Basically, i import my current stock data from my till system in my shop in to actinic using .csv

However, my products are split in to category's and i cannot seem to figure out which import field is used to create 'sub-categories'

At the moment i can only have 1 level of category which means i have about nearly 20 cats on my homepage which is awful.

On the homepage it should should display, say, 5 MASTER categories. Then when the category link is clicked, it then displays 3 SUB categories, and when the customer clicks on the sub category, the products in that sub category are then displayed.

Any ideas? i bet its quite simple... At the moment the only way round this i can see is that once the .csv file is imported, i then have to manually create my sub categories in actinic and copy and paste all the products in each one.

This will take forever as i have over 1000 products already!

So... in a nutshell, is there a subcategory import field that is used to create sub categories like it creates the main category's during an import.

Cheers

Mario

[jont]

Hi Mario,

have you tried setting up Actinic to the desired sections and subsections... exporting the file as a CSV and then mapping your file to the exported file accordingly?

[mazyd2005]

hmmm

how would i map the 2 csv files?

I will try a couple of things and see what happens.

Thanks for the tip.

Mario

[cdicken]

Hi there

To create subsections, you need to put all your subsection information into the one field in the import file using the following format:

Main Section|Sub Section

This will create a section called 'Main Section' and a subsection within it called 'Sub Section'.