to get an idea of what you have to do, you can look the mini-language for dealing with categories. this is all taken care of if you use them. applications\product\script\org\ofbiz\product\category
Alex Melnik sent the following on 8/25/2008 10:19 AM: > Jacek, thanks for the help. I tried changes the CategoryWorker but that > doesn't seem to help. I am using the rollup. I'm doing an ETL into the > schema though. I'm thinking that maybe I'm not setting some field properly, > so my categories and subcategories get flattened up in addition to being > hirarchical. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Alex >>>> Jacek Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/25/2008 11:09 AM >>> > > Alex Melnik wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I apologies if this question has been addressed before, but I wasn't able to >> find info on this. The questions is as follows: >> >> When I add a category and a subcategory to the catalog, both category and >> subcategory shows up at the same level (1st level in catalog). How can I >> turn it off? >> >> Thanks for the help, >> Alex >> >> > Alex, > > I had the same problem. Please follow email exchange below, it worked > for me: > > Hi Jacek > > You must assign the parent category using the category rollup screen, > it is not enough to just assign the primaryParentCategoryId. > > Regards > Scott > > 2008/8/23 Jacek Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> Jacques Le Roux wrote: >> >>>>> What makes you believe that ? Did you see any issues in result ? >>>>> >>>>> Jacques >>>>> >>>>> From: "Jacek Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>>>>>> I have noticed while working with Catalog-Categories that the list of >>>>>>> top >>>>>>> categories (parent category is null) is incorrect. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I believe that CategoryWorker.java (producing the list of top >>>>>>> categories) >>>>>>> has an error; >>>>>>> >>>>>>> in line 105 "CurrentProductCategoryRollup" should be replaced with >>>>>>> "PrimaryParentCategoryId" >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Jacek >>>>>>> >>>> >>> I created a top category using UI, I checked db and found in the >>> ProductCategory table my newly created category with PrimaryParentCategoryId >>> = null as expected. >>> Then I created a sub-category using UI and checked db again and found in the >>> ProductCategory table my sub-category with PrimaryParentCategoryId pointing >>> to top category as expected. >>> After that selecting Choose Top Categories from the UI (webtools/menu >>> catalog/Browse Categories) I would expect to see my top category only, but I >>> have seen top category along with sub-category instead). >>> >>> Jacek >>> >> > > > > >
