Tabs
In this section we will go through all tabs and fields of the category
management interface.
Data
This tab contains the core date of the category.
- Name
- The name of the category. This is displayed on several places: Within
overview pages on top of the category page and within the meta-title tag.
- Slug
- The last part of the category’s URL.
- Parent
- The parent category
- Position
- The ordinal position of the category within the parent category. Lower
number come first.
- Short description
- A short description of the category. This is displayed within overview
pages.
- Description
- The detailed description of the category. This is displayed on the detail
page of the category.
- Exclude from navigation
- If activated the category is excluded from the navigation portlet.
- Image
- The image of the category. This can be displayed within overview pages and
the detailed page.
- Static block
- An static html block which is assigned to the category. This is displayed
on top of detail page.
View
This tab contains all data which are responsible on how the content is
displayed.
- Category template
- The selected template of the category. A category can have several
templates. The selected templates decides what is displayed (sub templates,
products) and how this information is structured.
- Show all products (only available when a product template is selected)
- If activated also products of sub categories will be displayed for that
category. Otherwise only the direct products are displayed.
- Active formats
- if activated you can overwrite the formats. If not activated formats are
inherited from the parent object. This may be a parent category or the
shop itself.
- Category cols (only available if active formats is True and a category template is selected)
- Amount of columns which are used to display the sub categories. Always all
direct categories of the category are displayed.
- Product cols / Product rows (only available if active formats is True and a product template is selected)
- Amount of columns and rows which are used to display the products of the category.
The amount of products which are displayed calculates by cols * rows. If there
are more products than that the products are automatically paginated.
Products
This tab is used to assign/remove products to the category.
Filter
In order to make it easier to find and select several products you can filter
them. This is true for assignable and assigned products. Just put the product
name into the appropriate text box or/and select a certain category.
Add products
You can see available products to assign on top of the page. Select the checkboxes
beside all products you want to assign and click on Add to category
Remove products
You can see all already assigned products within the Selected products section.
Select the checkboxes beside the products you want to remove and click on Remove
from category.
SEO
This tab is used to optimize your pages for search engines. You can enter data
for all meta data fields. However LFS provides some reasonable default values
for all fields.
- Meta title
- This is displayed within the meta title tag of the category’s HTML tags. By
default the name of the product is used.
- Meta keywords
- This is displayed within the meta keywords tag of the category’s HTML page.
By default the short description of the category is used.
- Meta description
- This is displayed within the meta description tag of the category’s HTML
page. By default the short description of the category is used.
You can use several placeholders within the above mentioned fields:
<name>
The name of the product.
<short-description>
The short description of the product (only within meta
keywords/description-field).
Portlets
The tab is used to assign portlets to the category.
Overview
By default portlets are inherited from the parent, which is the parent category
or the shop.
Block portlets
Portlets can be blocked by slots. To block portlets activate the appropriate
checkbox within the Blocked parent slots section and click on the Save
blocked parent slots.
Add portlets
In order to add a new portlet to the category select the type of the portlet you
want to add, click Add portlet, fill in the form and click on Save
portlet button.
Edit portlets
In order to edit a portlet click on the edit link beside the portlet, enter
your data and click on Save portlet button.
Delete portlets
In order to delete a portlet click on the delete link beside the portlet and
click on yes.
your data and click on Save portlet.
