Categories Dressing

[gjh42]

corry - Categories Dressing will not work on the Documents sidebox, only the Categories sidebox. If you have installed Categories Dressing, you can get the two-box appearance by creating "category groups" (like #catGroup48 etc.).

/*example for custom category group styling*/
ul#catGroup48 {
    border: 1px solid #bd6699;
    background: #bbeeff; 
    position: relative;
    left: -1.3em;
    top: 0.2em;
    }

The readme has more information; post back if you still need help.

[gjh42]

PS - If you look at sportbiker's test site from the previous post 1748, you will see an example of two boxes with their own headings. It is also possible to hide the outer container so both boxes look like independent sideboxes.

[Corry]

Is it possible to have the two boxes on opposite sides of the page as this is my main goal? Thanks for your help

[gjh42]

That is more difficult. It can work for some circumstances, but not if the size of the boxes will change dynamically.

Some people have used the ch_categories option alongside the regular categories (turning on both categories and chcategories sideboxes in Tools > Layout Boxes Controller) with custom code (possibly just CSS in the stylesheet) to limit the categories displayed in each box. This is actually two separate, fully functioning sideboxes.

[Corry]

Hiya, I've got ch_categories working okay but it's showing every category. I'm pretty sure I just need to make simple value changes to the file ch_categories_tree_generator.php. I'd like it to only display categories with ID's over 100. Any help would be great, sorry to be a pain. Thanks :)

[edub6384]

Hi, can anyone help me with this small problem? I currently have ch_categories dressing installed and seem to work fine except one of my links in sidebox is displaying as a background image hiding the text. I recently had some trial and errors and originally created a bg image called catbg4 matching the cat. ID#4that's being affected. I recently deleted the image and any define statements to stop any images as headings. My work-in-progress site is http://marketingkeys.org/public_html...php?main_page= and you can see that my original category sidebox is being affected with category ID#4

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

[gjh42]

Actually, there are settings in categories_dressing_defines.php specifically for configuring how and which kinds of categories display. Read up on it in the readme and look at the defines file, and I will look at it when I have time to advise you.

[Corry]

Hiya, I checked out the file but I wasn't sure how to make it work for the ch_category box. Just to clarify, I'm trying to put different categories into each of the two boxes. Any help would be much appreciated when you have a spare moment. :)

[Elly]

I have installed this fine, but now it comes to the stage of changing the defaults of the category box and I just don't understand the readme.

I would like the various types of book product available as categories - paperbacks, ebooks, audio books; followed by a "Authors" category, made up of subcategories of the author names. I have made a start setting these up in the admin panel - I just need to display them properl in the box

So, I need to get rid of major heading / minor heading provided in the default and get these categories in the right order. The readme is making my head spin.

Especially - how do I find out what the cPath is for a category?

I would be grateful if someone could explain in a more digestable form.

Oh - what I have so far is at: http://www.ellybooks.co.uk/shop/

[gjh42]

Go to the category in question and look at the address bar at the top. It will have something like &cPath=5_67. 5_67 would be the cPath you use for defines.

To get rid of demo items, find their defines and comment them out like

//define('WHAT_EVER'...

I know the readme is long, but it has to cover a lot of possibilities. It has big headings for each section, so find a section that covers the task you have and focus on that.