Creating Categories - do I need "Home"

[benwiggy]

Do I need to create a "Home" category, as well as having a "root"?

Or can I just have a bunch of categories immediately under Root?

[vekia]

home category is necessary, in fact - this is root category

[NemoPS]

Unless you specify another root category, yes, you do

[benwiggy]

1. I deleted all the demo data with the cleaner add-on.

2. I try to create my first category. 

3. There is already a Root parent to select when I define the category, but no Home.

4. The demo data has root and home as two separate things.

 

When I create "Home", do I need to select anything to make it special, or not? 

 

Currently, the first category I create does not show in the Back Office list until I create another one.

Edited April 19, 2014 by benwiggy (see edit history)

[benwiggy]

So.... 

I need to create a Home category as my very first category. Do I need to define it as root? That doesn't seem possible in the BO, but is possible by importing a CSV.

 

If anyone can tell me how to add the very first category to an otherwise empty database, I would be very grateful.

Currently, if I manually add the first one, it is invisible in the BO list. Only after adding a second category will it appear.

None of my categories appear in the front office.

 

Importing a CSV produces errors. I've got another thread for this.

 

Thanks!

Edited April 25, 2014 by benwiggy (see edit history)

[benwiggy]

Prestashop want £180 to fix the problems I'm having.

 

Since I am unable to add a single Category to PS, I'm going to try OpenCart.

[NemoPS]

You mean you can't select "is root category" when adding a new one?

As things might have got corrupted, login to phpmyadmin and set the new category id as base category of the default shop (should be id=1)

[benwiggy]

There's nothing that says "Is Root Category".

I can set root to be the Parent folder, which is why I asked the difference between root and Home.

 

I can now create a Home category, but it's ID = 5. Does it need to be ID = 1 ? Ideally, that's what I would like, so I'll try editing the database directly. 

Hopefully, I can then import all my other categories after that.

 

Can you give a bit of instruction as to what I need to change in the database? There's 5 separate tables, and there's a root AND Home.

 

Thanks.

Edited April 26, 2014 by benwiggy (see edit history)

[vekia]

you can use only one root category. and don't remove it, it's necessary.

 

change id of home to 2

[benwiggy]

Argh. Home has disappeared again.

• It does not display in the list of Categories in the Back Office.
• I can create new categories, and Home is listed as a Parent in the Edit window. 
• I can see the list of subcategories under Home in the Back Office, but if I go back to Root, Home is not there.
• No Categories are displayed in the front shop.

 

I haven't edited the database: The only thing I've done to the entire shop is added two categories. I've tried this several times, and it still doesn't work.

 

What am I doing wrong?

• So, I need to have root and Home, but does Home need to be a Root category or not? I seem to be getting conflicting advice.
• And there's no control I can find that says "Is Root Category".
• Is there anything else I need to do when creating Home to make it special in any way?

 

I've tried countless times to create a shop with PS 1.4 and 1.5 and I can't get past this point. I am not normally stupid. I created my own shop and templates in 1.3.1 and that works.

[benwiggy]

You mean you can't select "is root category" when adding a new one?

No.

[NemoPS]

So wait. Which version is giving you issues, currently?

[benwiggy]

Version 1.6. There seem to be several other posts with people having problems with creating categories.

[soapcommander]

I am also using 1.6 and I am not able to change the root category for my products...Please advise.

[benwiggy]

Bump. No one can describe how to add categories correctly?