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    Default Linking Category to other Category

    I would like to send two complete categories to the "sale" category maintaining the category structure.

    The long and difficult way of doing this is: reproduce the complete two category trees in the "sale" category and then link all the products in every leave of the category tree into the reproduced category trees in the "sale" category.

    Searching the forum I found that in principle it is not possible to link a category into a different category, but isn't there some work around?

    For example, for me it would be fine when I can simply make a html link into the sale directory to the original categories. Is that possible? How should I do that?

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    Default Re: Linking Category to other Category

    Instead of having a Category named "Sales", you should just use the built in SaleMaker in Admin>Catelog>SaleMaker.

    Then, Checking a category automatically includes the sub-categories.
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    Default Re: Linking Category to other Category

    Ok, thanks for that answer.

    However, I also see potential for other categories than "sale", some sub-categories are simply also applicable to other (main)-categories. I did the whole tree copying trick there too, which was a little annoying.

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    Default Re: Linking Category to other Category

    ( ... so basically my question is still whether I can link a category into another category (other than sale) ...)

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    Default Re: Linking Category to other Category

    No......not the Category itself......just the products contained within.
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    Default Re: Linking Category to other Category

    Ok Thanks, too bad.
    So would you also copy the complete tree and then link the products, or just not try to do such a thing?

 

 

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