Categories with Zero Products

[bond]

Hello everyone, I'm new to the zen community. I initially had oscommerce installed on my web server, but after I research the two, I decided to uninstall it and go with zen. So far, I like it!

My first question: I need to hide any category with zero products. Does anyone know how I can accomplish that?

Thanks!!

[nomadrw]

Hello bond
and welcome to zen
to hide any products or catalogs that zen has product you will need to goto
admin>catalog>Categories / Products
you will see seveal catalogs and products in order to disable the info look for the Status in the header.
ie
ID Catagories / Products Models
once you find that you will either see a green or red button (red turns off or disables the product or Catagories. So just click on the green button and follow the directions on the next window.
That's it.

nomad

[bond]

Thanks! That was easy!

[edwardtilbury]

any way to accomplish this dynamically? What if we have thousands of categories?

thanks!

[bodyjewelrystores]

any way to accomplish this dynamically? What if we have thousands of categories?

thanks!

I second this question

On our store, we hide everything which goes out of stock, and then reactivate the products as soon as they're back - and I do it all with Easy Populate - so, categories sometimes become "empty" and I won't even notice it. We do have hundreds of categories, so checking all of them and hiding them manually on each stock update is not an option.

We need to have a way to automatically and dynamically hide all categories with 0 active products - and to unhide them again as soon as any product becomes active.

Any ideas?

[rstevenson]

Since you're already using Easy Populate, and presumably create and maintain your base data in Excel or a similar program, you could automate the process somewhat by using Visual Basic within Excel. But of course, this would mean you'd always be deleting and creating categories as needed rather than just turning them off and on, and I'm not sure EP can delete categories during uploads -- create yes, but maybe not delete.

Rob