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StaticStore » StaticStore Manual » The Store Manager
4. The Store Manager
4.1 Overview
4.2 How to add a category
4.3 Deleting a category
4.4 Renaming a category
4.5 How to cross link categories
4.5.1 How to add cross links
4.5.2 How to delete cross links
4.6 How to add related categories
4.7 Adding a product to a category
4.8 Adding more than 1 product to a category
4.9 Importing Data/products
4.9.1 Order & Content
4.9.1.1 Order & Content
4.9.1.2 Delimitation
4.9.1.3 Duplicates
4.10 Editing, Moving, Copying or Deleting Products
4.10.1 Editing, Moving, Copying or
Deleting Products in categories
4.10.2 Searching for a product for
Editing, Moving, Deleting Products
4.11 Using custom HTML templates for different categories
4.12 Previewing categories
4.13 Targeting banners at categories
4.1 Overview
The category manager is a visual set of tools that has been
designed to be user friendly and simple to use. It should be self-explanatory in
most cases.
With the Store manager, you can do the following:
- Create categories. You can also add batches of categories.
- Delete entire categories with subcategories and contents.
- Rename categories.
- Supply description and keywords for each category. The description
and keywords can be used for meta tags in category pages if you run a static Store.
- Add related categories for any category.
- Lock categories so that end-users cannot submit URLs to
categories you have chosen to lock.
- You can add 1 product at a time or anything from 1-5 at
a time in a category.
- You can also import data into categories via the import
function.
- You can edit, delete, move or copy products.
- You can crawl URLs for titles, meta descriptions and meta
keywords in a category. These product listings can then be added to the category
where the URLs was crawled from.
- You can define or assign your own custom html templates
to categories.
- You can target banners at the categories of your choice.
- Preview categories. The preview will display what end users
see when they browse your Store.
4.2 How
to add a category
You can add a category by clicking the 'Add New Cat' Button in the 'Store
Manager' - This button will be present in every category you browse in the
Store manager so that you can add sub categories where-ever your are.
4.3 Deleting a category
You may delete an entire category by clicking on the 'delete' link that is
displayed next to a category.
Caution: All products, subcategories and the entire contents of the category
you choose to delete will be deleted.
4.4 Renaming a category
You may rename a category or edit it by clicking on the 'Edit' link that is
displayed next to the category.
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4.6 How to cross link categories
You can crosslink a category by adding a category. Crosslinks
function as symbolic links to real categories. This means that you can have
cross linked categories in any location or category that links to specific
categories.
For example:
Let’s say you have a category called:
Sports_Shirts/
You could then for example create a crosslink that goes to the category:
Golf_Shirts/ |
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The crosslink could then for example be:
Golf_Shirts/
When end-users click:
Golf_Shirts/
they’ll actually be going to:
Sports_Shirts/
4.6.1 How to add cross links
Click the 'Add Cat' button when inside a category from the 'Store Manager'.
Go to the parent window where you clicked the 'Add Cat' button and browse the
categories until you find the category that you would like linked to the new category
you are about to create.
When moving your mouse over any category, the browser's status bar will display
the category ID. Go back to the 'Add New Category' window and enter the
Cross Linked Category ID where you would like the cross linked
category to point to.
Descriptions, Keywords, Related Categories and the lock functionality has no
effect on categories that has been cross linked.
4.6.2 How to delete cross links
Click the 'delete' link next to the crosslinked category in the Store Manager
that you would like deleted. Deleting the crosslinked category will have no effect
on the original category or its contents.
4.7 How to add related categories
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category. To edit an existing category, click one of the 'edit' buttons displayed
next to each category from the 'Store Manager'. |
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The window that will appear contains the category name, description, etc. There
will be a field that is named: 'Related Categories'. Inside this
field enter the IDs of categories that you would like to be related to the current
category. The IDs need to be separated by comma's.
To get the IDs of categories, browse through the categories of the 'Store Manager'.
When moving your mouse over categories, the browser's status bar will display the
category ID.
4.8 Adding a product to
a category
Lets say you have created some categories and sub categories. Go to the category
where you want to add a product and click the 'Add Product' button.
Note that product listings needs at least a title before it is added.
4.9 Adding more than
1 product to a category
You may add more than 1 product to a category at a time by going to the category
where you want to add products. Once in this category click the 'Add Multiple Products'
button.
A list of blank boxes with fields will be displayed to you.
Complete the blank fields with the products you want to add. Complete the number
of boxes according to the number of products you want to add. You don't have to
complete all 5 boxes. Only complete the boxes for which you have products. StaticStore
will recognize that a box/section has no information and this will have the effect
of it not adding a product.
Note that product listings needs at least a title before it is added.
4.10 Importing
Data/Products
Please use the Import Utility Located Under Plug-ins Tab
4.9.1 Rules
4.9.1.1 Order & Content
Please use the Import Utility Located Under Plug-ins Tab
Import/Export Utillity Ver: 1.0 Beta
Please ensure that all fields (in the import file) are listed in the correct
order, as indicated by the tables in the image below. Title, Desc, url, keywords, price...
These must be added to the end of your string.
[All blank/missing fields are added as blank field entries.]
We prefer to use OpenOffice Calc and save as a .csv in tab
delimited format as MS Excel can add extra code depending on your preferences set.. You cannot use a column headers.
Align you column data such as column one may be category name etcetera.
4.9.1.2 Delimitation
Check the type of delimitation your import file is using.
4.10 Editing,
Moving, Copying or Deleting Products
You can edit any product by searching for it, or by going to the category where
it resides in.
4.10.1 Editing, Moving, Copying or Deleting Products
in categories
All product listings are accompanied by a check box. Check the boxes of the products
you want to edit/move/copy/delete. At the bottom or top of the product listings
there will be a drop down box. Select edit/move/delete from it according to what
you want to do.
4.10.2 Searching for a product for Editing, Moving,
Copying or Deleting
At the left of the 'Store Manager' you will always see a search box. Type in the
keywords of the product to find the product. Once you have found the product,
click the accompanied edit/move/copy/delete products.
4.11 Using custom
HTML templates for different categories
5.10 How to use custom category templates
4.12 Previewing
categories
To get a preview of how products will look like when end-users browse your store,
click on the 'Preview' link next to any category/category displayed in the 'Store
Manager'.
4.13 Targeting banners at categories
See: 9.2 The Banner Manager
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