Re: Alpha List for Catagory

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 19335
interpreted = N
texte = Yes, this would be very easy to do. Probably the best way would be to build your A-Z menu in a seperate text file and [include] it into the pages where ever you wanted. The do a search based on the first letter of the Category field of your database.i.e. blah.tpl?command=search&db=blah.db&bwCategorydata=aor what ever other search criteria you would like to use.Ray At 11:50 AM 8/5/98, you wrote: >I am evaluation Web Catalog and want to setup a store that list over >1100 categories (these are the different manufactures products we >carry). > >The software appears to display 50 categories when entering the store. >I could change it to display all 1100 categories on this page, but that >is a bit to much. What I would like to do is to have the catalog >display a list of all the characters in the alphabet, i.e.: A B C D E F >G H I J...... and request that the user select the corresponding letter >for the manufacturer they as looking for and then display a list of all >manufactures that start with that letter. So if someone clicked on the >letter M, they would get a list of all manufactures that started with M, >i.e.: Microsoft, MicroSolutions, Microtest, Micolia, MYOB, etc... >Currently, I am listing the manufactures names in the Category field >in my database file. > >Does any one know if this can be done??? > >Thanks, >Mark B. >berk@voicenet.com > Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Alpha List for Catagory (Gary Richter 1998)
  2. Re: Alpha List for Catagory (Raymond Hatch 1998)
  3. Alpha List for Catagory (Mark Bergkvist 1998)
Yes, this would be very easy to do. Probably the best way would be to build your A-Z menu in a seperate text file and [include] it into the pages where ever you wanted. The do a search based on the first letter of the Category field of your database.i.e. blah.tpl?command=search&db=blah.db&bwCategorydata=aor what ever other search criteria you would like to use.Ray At 11:50 AM 8/5/98, you wrote: >I am evaluation Web Catalog and want to setup a store that list over >1100 categories (these are the different manufactures products we >carry). > >The software appears to display 50 categories when entering the store. >I could change it to display all 1100 categories on this page, but that >is a bit to much. What I would like to do is to have the catalog >display a list of all the characters in the alphabet, i.e.: A B C D E F >G H I J...... and request that the user select the corresponding letter >for the manufacturer they as looking for and then display a list of all >manufactures that start with that letter. So if someone clicked on the >letter M, they would get a list of all manufactures that started with M, >i.e.: Microsoft, MicroSolutions, Microtest, Micolia, MYOB, etc... >Currently, I am listing the manufactures names in the Category field >in my database file. > >Does any one know if this can be done??? > >Thanks, >Mark B. >berk@voicenet.com > Raymond Hatch

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