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    Default warning re all products in top category

    version: v1-39H

    I'm working on a cart where the shop owner wanted to just have all products mixed together, no categories. She's got 20 products listed. so there's a message that says:

    "WARNING: You have Products in the Top Level Category. This will cause pricing to not work properly in the Catalog. Products found: 20"

    I'm not seeing anything that indicates a problem with pricing. Can someone enlighten me here, and perhaps I should re-do the products, but can I do that without removing all the products, re-doing, and then adding them all back in?

    Thanks.

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    Default Re: warning re all products in top category

    If that's all the products you plan to have, you may be OK. The problem will come if you want to add categories down the road. You can have products or subcategories in a category, but not both.

    In your place, I would create a category and move all the products into it (the purple button with the 'm' on it). Then you can set the category to display its products on the main page and turn the categories sidebox off.

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    Default Re: warning re all products in top category

    Thanks Stevesh.

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    Default Re: warning re all products in top category

    Unfortunately, you can't create a new category while there are any products (and no existing categories) in Top. You will have to delete all of the products before creating your new generic category. You can copy & paste all of the current product info from the product editing pages to Notepad so it will be easier to re-enter them.

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    Default Re: warning re all products in top category

    You could try this trick ...

    Backup your database ...

    Run this in the Install SQL Patches ...
    Code:
    UPDATE products_to_categories SET categories_id = 2;
    UPDATE products SET master_categories_id = 2;
    Then go to the Categlog ... Categories/Products ... and make a new Category ...

    If the categories_id is 2, the Products will all show up in there ...

    If the categories_id is another value, run the UPDATES with that value in the Install SQL Patches ... and the Products will move into that new Category and you can then add your new Categories and move the Products to their proper Categories as needed ...
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