Missing Options

[Djcyclesuk]

hello! new to this! i am trying to add categories to a website but there doesnt seem to be a Add Category button or the config button from the Admin home

can anyone help?

[stevesh]

In Admin - Catalog - Categories/Products there should be a button which says 'New Category'. If not, you probably have a missing/corrupted file somewhere.

[gjh42]

If you have any products in your "Top", you will not see a "new category" button.
If this is the case, you will have to delete all of the products, and then you will get the categories button.

Categories (including Top) hold (sub)categories or products, not both.

[Djcyclesuk]

is there not a way i can copy everything i did and them create a category then put them in instead of deleting everything? they are in the Top cat.

[gjh42]

Sorry, in this case there is no way around it.

If you already had even one other category, you could shift them there while adding subs. How many products do you have entered? If the quantity is large enough, you might benefit from using EasyPopulate to export and re-import them.

[Ajeh]

Actually ... there is a trick to this ...

Let's set all of your Products to be in categories_id 1 ... this can be done by running this command in the Tools ... Insert SQL Patches ...

UPDATE products_to_categories SET categories_id = 1;
UPDATE products SET master_categories_id = 1; 

NOTE: It would be a good idea to backup your database first before doing this ...

Then, when you create your first Category, it will be assigned categories_id 1 and all the Products will magically appear in it ...