products and subcategories in a cat

[geeker]

I am setting up my first zen cart site. I have main categories and sub categories. I would like my sub category items to display on the main page of the category and if someone wants to filter further they can click on the sub category links.

I have this working by putting all items in the main category and linking them to the sub cats. The only problem is I get an error message telling me that this is fine if it's temporary but is in general not allowed.

My question is what are the consequences of doing this?

Thanks in advance.

[kuroi]

It will mess up the way in which products are linked to categories and category counts are calculated in ways that are difficult to predict. You may wish to take a look at the cetegory_tree class which will give an indication of the complexity and detail of the tree walk needed to perform some core product management tasks.

[geeker]

Is there a better way to achieve this?

[kuroi]

You could adapt the new products box. It can be set to not apply a time limit, and therefore show all products, and the text could be changed to remove the references to "new".

I believe too that the contents of the box will be automatically filtered to match any category selected.

[geeker]

thanks I will look in that direction