posted on April 7, 2003 12:11:58 PM new
PROBLEM: When editing text in existing store categories using the Vendio Store Wizard, Edit Category, the "existing" information is displaced and non-editable.
EXAMPLE:
Category is,
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Auto: AMC
Vintage original magazine advertisements from AMC (American Motors Corporation).
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When I check and press edit, the editable text boxes that appear have only the following information:
TITLE BOX has Auto
TEXT BOX has AMC
The previously typed text, "Vintage original magazine advertisements from AMC (American Motors Corporation)." is on the extreme right under the "Items" column and cannot be edited.
Attempts to edit the Title and Text boxes results in disaster. The workaround for this has been to delete the category and re-enter the information with the changes.
Could this be due to the colon I have placed after the word Auto ? This doesn't seem to happen on my categories without the colon - but since there are no SUB-CATEGORIES available, I feel the colon is needed.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Greg
Greg Williams
Retro Bargains
www.retrobargains.com
[ edited by RetroBargains on Apr 7, 2003 01:57 PM ]
posted on April 7, 2003 02:08:32 PM new
Hello Greg,
I do see what you mean, and I would imagine that the problem is linked to the colon in the category. Sometimes "special" characters can cause problems - I will have to log a bug on this one, but in the meantime, would it be feasible for you to use a dash or different character instead of a colon?
Yeah it's definitely the colon. BUT, I found a quicker workaround instead of deleting and creating again (that action takes too many synchs and shutdowns of SMPro to get the changed category to show).
Here's the trick:
I just retype the title like so
Auto: AMC
Then I delete the AMC that showed up in the description box and type in my new description. This puts it all back to where it should be along with my changed description... all without deleting.
I would still like to suggest the addition of Sub-Categories for our Main Categories.
This would do a few things, make the Category list easier on the customer and not so overwhelming that it scares them away.
It would also "pull" the valuable info under the categories back towards the top of the page. Currently if there are long lists of categories, that info - the Auction Gallery, Customer Resources, Bookmark, SquareTrade Logo, and Vendio Logo - is pushed WAY down.
Sub-Categories would help tremendously across the board.
Thanks!
Greg
Greg Williams
Retro Bargains
www.retrobargains.com
posted on April 7, 2003 04:03:53 PM new
As an aside, I use colons too. Basically it allows me to have artificial "sub-categories". Like Greg, I have car ads. If it was all in one category there would be about 800 ads in one category. Too many for someone to surf through. So, I use the colon and type: Cars: Lincoln, etc. One problem I do have is that long category names are truncated. So, my category, Household: Appliances or Household: Refrigerators gets truncated to Household: Refrig.
If we would move those pesky numbers in the parentheses that might give more room. Or, have an option to make the frame bigger or the font smaller. Overall, very happy with the store and the business it is generating.
