The Fuzzy Pineapple Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Hi! I would like to know how to make a collection that is not one for buying like a pack. I want a section in my shop that can just show something like a jewelry collection. I have attached a picture for reference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shacker Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 if is like the pictures, simply create a categoy and put your products inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fuzzy Pineapple Posted June 6, 2013 Author Share Posted June 6, 2013 if is like the pictures, simply create a categoy and put your products inside. Thank you for your help. But alas, I tried that way initially however I have more than one collection. I made a collection category but all of the items from each sub category (the different collections) show up. I need a way to have multiple collections in one category titled collection. I have attached some more pictures of how I used the packs to solve the original problem however I would like to not use packs at all as it conflicts with inventory. The other pictures show how I would like to display the multiple collections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shacker Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 create subcategories inside this collection, and put each product in the respective collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Report Store Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 And how do you create a sub-category? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shacker Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 in back office, go to your main category (the collection) and when you are inside, create a new category Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fuzzy Pineapple Posted January 18, 2014 Author Share Posted January 18, 2014 (edited) Hello everyone. Thank you for your help. However, making a category and then a subcategory does not solve the issue of products in all of the subcategories showing up together on the "Shop by" page. Otherwise, the "shop by" page will be an empty page. Again, I would like multiple collections. shop by >collection >collection #1 >collection #2 >collection #3 Here is the exact example of how I would like the page to function http://www.torrid.com/torrid/Collections.jsp Edited January 18, 2014 by The Fuzzy Pineapple (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stottycabanas Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Hi Fuzzy, if I were you, I would set the category structure up as recommended by Shacker: Collections - category (with Home as parent) Collection #1 - subcategory (Collections is parent) Collection #2 - subcategory (Collections is parent) Collection #3 - subcategory (Collections is parent) Then each product can be associated with the collection it belongs to. Next step is to amend /themes/yourtheme/category.tpl as follows: Around line 97 is the line: {if $products} After this insert the following line: {if !isset($subcategories)} and insert a closing {/if} at approx line 118. The effect of this is to show only the subcategories when you go to the page for Collections (i.e. no products) and when you got to a subcategory page (e.g. for Collection #1), you will then see the products for that collection. Hopefully that's what you're trying to achieve. I would also recommend you drop the 'Shop by'. The site you wish to emulate doesn't have that and to be honest, I can't see the point of it. Cheers, Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fuzzy Pineapple Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 Thank you for the advice. I will definitely try it. I would like more than just collections to go inside of the shop by section. The purpose of it is to make it easier for a customer to locate specific colors, collections, or styles for the entire site. Will that code editing work for all of the subcategories in shop by category? The idea is for the first page they see to be a picture (see pictures below). >Shop by >Collection > Collection #1 > Collection #2 >Style > Style #1 > Style #2 >Color > Color #1 > Color #2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fuzzy Pineapple Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 Other example on this website http://store.delias.com/category/winter+faves.do?nType=1&incmpid=topnavwinterfaves Again thank you for any help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stottycabanas Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Thank you for the advice. I will definitely try it. I would like more than just collections to go inside of the shop by section. The purpose of it is to make it easier for a customer to locate specific colors, collections, or styles for the entire site. Will that code editing work for all of the subcategories in shop by category? The idea is for the first page they see to be a picture (see pictures below). >Shop by >Collection > Collection #1 > Collection #2 >Style > Style #1 > Style #2 >Color > Color #1 > Color #2 OK, if you want to do that using categories, you could have the following structure: >Collections >By collection >Collection #1 >Collection #2 >Collection #3 >By style >Style #1 >Style #2 >Style #3 >By colour >Colour #1 >Colour #2 >Colour #3 Each product can be associated with its collection, style and colour as required. However, things like colour and style are more normally set up as product attributes, not categories. You then use these attributes to set up a number of combinations for each product. That would then allow you to make use of the layered navigation block module. If you look at your Asos example, that's what they do, with colour, size, etc. being used to find matching products, but only once you're on the category page. There's no facility to look for e.g. red products across the whole Asos site. When you say you want 'the first page they see to be a picture', I think you mean the category page rather than the site's home page. Assuming so, you can assign an image to each category which will be displayed when you're on that category's page. Your examples vary as to whether they show just an image for the category (Torrid & Wet seal) or whether they also show the products (Asos). If you want the Asos approach, then ignore my suggested mod to category.tpl. How you want all this to appear will also depend to an extent whether the complete range of products you intend to sell falls within the Collections or not. In your examples, all these sites offer further product categories, e.g. shoes, accessories, etc. Will you be doing that too? So in a nutshell, I believe you'll be able to satisfy your requirements, even though I'm not 100% sure yet what they are! You need to think carefully about what you want to see where as you navigate your site - your examples give more questions than answers - and what the best fit is using Prestashop's approach to categories, product combinations, etc. Key questions for you are: what defines your categories and your attributes? what structure do you want to see in the categories block? what structure do you want to see in the top horizontal menu? do you want to use the layered navigation block? what do you want to see on each category page; subcategory page (without lower levels); product page? HTH, Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fuzzy Pineapple Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 (edited) OK, if you want to do that using categories, you could have the following structure: >Collections >By collection >Collection #1 >Collection #2 >Collection #3 >By style >Style #1 >Style #2 >Style #3 >By colour >Colour #1 >Colour #2 >Colour #3 Each product can be associated with its collection, style and colour as required. However, things like colour and style are more normally set up as product attributes, not categories. You then use these attributes to set up a number of combinations for each product. That would then allow you to make use of the layered navigation block module. If you look at your Asos example, that's what they do, with colour, size, etc. being used to find matching products, but only once you're on the category page. There's no facility to look for e.g. red products across the whole Asos site. When you say you want 'the first page they see to be a picture', I think you mean the category page rather than the site's home page. Assuming so, you can assign an image to each category which will be displayed when you're on that category's page. Your examples vary as to whether they show just an image for the category (Torrid & Wet seal) or whether they also show the products (Asos). If you want the Asos approach, then ignore my suggested mod to category.tpl. How you want all this to appear will also depend to an extent whether the complete range of products you intend to sell falls within the Collections or not. In your examples, all these sites offer further product categories, e.g. shoes, accessories, etc. Will you be doing that too? So in a nutshell, I believe you'll be able to satisfy your requirements, even though I'm not 100% sure yet what they are! You need to think carefully about what you want to see where as you navigate your site - your examples give more questions than answers - and what the best fit is using Prestashop's approach to categories, product combinations, etc. Key questions for you are: what defines your categories and your attributes? what structure do you want to see in the categories block? what structure do you want to see in the top horizontal menu? do you want to use the layered navigation block? what do you want to see on each category page; subcategory page (without lower levels); product page? HTH, Dave Hi Dave, and thank you. I apologize for the confusion. I will try to make everything clear this time. My website is up, it can be located here http://www.thefuzzypineapple.com The top menu navigation will remain the same, with some added categories for the relaunch. I am currently using the layered navigation block for each of my products for each of their respective categories. The purpose of the "Shop By" category is for all of the items on the website to appear in their respective collection, style, or color. For example, if I created a red and blue shirt and a green and blue necklace, which would be in two seperate categories (apparel>shirt and accessories>necklaces), if a customer wanted to shop by>color>blue they could see both items in the "blue" section. If a person wanted to find clothes, accessories, or customized shoes specifically for a party, they could shop by>style>party and find items curated for a party. I would like "Shop By" main category to display just an image (like torrid) The subcategories Collection, Color, and Style will display an image as well. The subcategories Collection #1, Collection #2 Color #1 Color #2 Style #1 Style #2 ...will display the products. I would still like the layered navigation block to display on all of the pages. This is the exact navigation I would like to use >Shop by (Picture) >Collection (Picture) > Collection #1 (Products) > Collection #2 >Style > Style #1 > Style #2 >Color > Color #1 > Color #2 Edited January 19, 2014 by The Fuzzy Pineapple (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stottycabanas Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 This is the exact navigation I would like to use >Shop by (Picture) >Collection (Picture) > Collection #1 (Products) > Collection #2 >Style > Style #1 > Style #2 >Color > Color #1 > Color #2 To achieve this, you would need to set the above up as a category structure via back office, all pretty standard stuff. You will then need to edit/add every single product so that it is associated with one (or more) collection, one (or more) style and one (or more) colour, plus any other relevant categories/subcategories. So a Collection #1 red party shirt is a different product to a Collection #1 green party shirt is a different product to a Collection #1 red & green party shirt. To avoid any inconsistencies, I recommend you remove colour as an attribute. Whilst you can associate a product with more than one (colour) subcategory, you can't select more than one colour attribute for a product. With the category.tpl mod I suggested, you will only see products when you are at the lowest level of subcategory (you will also see the image for the subcategory at that level). Otherwise, you see the image for the current level and the subcategories at the next level down (with their images). I believe there is a downside to this. Removing the products from the higher level pages could mean that the layered navigation block won't function at those levels - across the whole site. You could maybe alleviate that by making the non-display of products only apply to the Shop by category or its children - you'd need someone more technical than me to tell you how to do that. Cheers, Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fuzzy Pineapple Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 To achieve this, you would need to set the above up as a category structure via back office, all pretty standard stuff. You will then need to edit/add every single product so that it is associated with one (or more) collection, one (or more) style and one (or more) colour, plus any other relevant categories/subcategories. So a Collection #1 red party shirt is a different product to a Collection #1 green party shirt is a different product to a Collection #1 red & green party shirt. To avoid any inconsistencies, I recommend you remove colour as an attribute. Whilst you can associate a product with more than one (colour) subcategory, you can't select more than one colour attribute for a product. With the category.tpl mod I suggested, you will only see products when you are at the lowest level of subcategory (you will also see the image for the subcategory at that level). Otherwise, you see the image for the current level and the subcategories at the next level down (with their images). I believe there is a downside to this. Removing the products from the higher level pages could mean that the layered navigation block won't function at those levels - across the whole site. You could maybe alleviate that by making the non-display of products only apply to the Shop by category or its children - you'd need someone more technical than me to tell you how to do that. Cheers, Dave Yep, I thought about the issue on the layered navigation. I have all of my products set up for just one color (their main color) currently. The color section is a way to introduce items that are two toned or multitoned. I will play around with it and see what happens. Again thank you for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fuzzy Pineapple Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 (edited) Hi everyone! After some thought, I figured out another way of going around the issue. You can just delete the phrase "There are no products in this category." and post a large picture to the category. You turn off subcategories and hide/turn off the sub categories filter in the layered navigation module and use your categories block module instead to view subcategories on the side for easy customer access. I found this tutorial to be most helpful with this part. http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/242665-solved-message-there-is-no-products-in-this-category-not-wanted/ Go to your layered navigation module, in the configuration section, and select no for "Show products from subcategories." Next for a lookbook type of layout (this can also be applied to outfits), make a collection or an outfit, as a product, deselect all of the boxes in the options panel on the "information" tab. Put your collection in the collection folder. Add all of products in the colletion through the accessories tool on the "associations" tab. Now sales of items won't affect the collection. Thank you so much to everyone who tried to help me here! Edited January 24, 2014 by The Fuzzy Pineapple (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stottycabanas Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Hi Fuzzy, sorry I could have mentioned earlier that the other tweak I did to category.tpl was to comment out the div including category-count.tpl at around line 41, which has the same effect. Anyway, glad you got to where you wanted. Cheers, Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fuzzy Pineapple Posted January 23, 2014 Author Share Posted January 23, 2014 Hi Fuzzy, sorry I could have mentioned earlier that the other tweak I did to category.tpl was to comment out the div including category-count.tpl at around line 41, which has the same effect. Anyway, glad you got to where you wanted. Cheers, Dave It is perfectly okay. I took your advice with the subcategories. Instead of having a shop by category, I just have a collection, style, and color parent category. Again, thank you so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fuzzy Pineapple Posted January 23, 2014 Author Share Posted January 23, 2014 http://postimg.org/image/fmfjno3vj/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fuzzy Pineapple Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 (edited) Hi Fuzzy, sorry I could have mentioned earlier that the other tweak I did to category.tpl was to comment out the div including category-count.tpl at around line 41, which has the same effect. Anyway, glad you got to where you wanted. Cheers, Dave Hi! After a bit more thought, I finally just figured out how the other sites did it and adjusted the answer. Check it out when you get a chance. Edited January 24, 2014 by The Fuzzy Pineapple (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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