hideCategories

[badgersden]

OK .. got it working now :)

The hide mod over wrote the product / column mod I had forgotten I installed ... lol .... it's all playing nicely together now after a few tweaks and pokes.

Thanks

[bobbrick]

OK .. got it working now :)

The hide mod over wrote the product / column mod I had forgotten I installed ... lol .... it's all playing nicely together now after a few tweaks and pokes.

Thanks

I am having the same problem, but can't find where to tweak and poke...
Can you tell me just what modifications you made to get the columns back as they were?

[digital abyss]

I have just installed this in the hope I could hide categories from the general public but not from certain user but it seems not possible?

I also do not see an ICON change:
/admin/images/icons/folder_HIDDEN.gif
/admin/images/icons/folder_NOMENU.gif
/admin/images/icons/folder_NORMAL.gif

do not show up in the admin area.
any ideas?

[s_mack]

No, that is not what the module is intended for. Though I'm sure its not much of a stretch to modify it for that use.

If you installed it according to the instructions and put the files in the right place, then you'll see those images when you change the folder's hidden status.

- Steven

[digital abyss]

No, that is not what the module is intended for. Though I'm sure its not much of a stretch to modify it for that use.

If you installed it according to the instructions and put the files in the right place, then you'll see those images when you change the folder's hidden status.

- Steven

I double checked and the permissions also but the change in status does not change the icon.
I'll try re-install the whole thing again.

So what would I need to change in order to Hide All Categories from the general public but not a user or group.?
I have seen many inquiries about it here in my search for such a thing so I am not alone in this.

Ideally there would be a option in user or group settings to set the category visible or not

[s_mack]

If you read the readme/instructions then you'd also see that this isn't a contribution that will be right for everyone and necessarily do what they want. It was built for a specific purpose and released in case it met other people's needs, and that's it. If you need it to do something in particular that it doesn't do, then you are welcome (under the GNU license terms) to modify it as you see fit. If you want me to do it, then you're welcome to solicit my services for a fee by personal message.

As for it not working for you, what can I say? You've given me next to no details so all I can tell you is it works for others, it has been tested to work on a fresh install... so either you did something wrong or perhaps it is conflicting with something (though I can't imagine what with the images you're talking about).

[Tinman0650]

Is this compatible with Glen's Categories Dressing contrib?

Thanks,

Tinman

[s_mack]

beats me. There are so many contribs out there that its impossible for the authors to maintain a list. The only person that can find out is you. Download both packages and look at them... any files in common? If yes, then it will NOT be compatible without a little work - you have to go through both and find what's different and merge them carefully. Hopefully, if they are both well written it will be easy to find the blocks of code for that module. If no, then it doesn't mean they WILL work together, but no harm in trying.

Never "try" anything on a live site, and always have backups. Good luck.

- Steven

[s_mack]

Incidentally, I've updated this contribution to reflect some changes in 1.3.8 that went previously unnoticed. They aparantly are not crucial as nobody reported any problems, but there were significant updates to the core code so its not a bad idea to update. If updating, you don't have to run the SQL, just copy the files. I've uploaded it to the downloads section, but it may take a bit for it to show up.

- Steven

[chadderuski]

Steven,

I just tested this mod and it works great under the classic template. Nice to be able to block categories from the search feature.

A couple questions:

Is there a way to selectively have categories hidden depending on some setting for customers? I ask because we sell a line of paper products, but only make them available to our customers local. We don't want people outside of Chicago attempting to order them online (hence your mod is perfect...).

So... How would you suggest I set things up??

Second Question:

I tested your mod using Jade's Horizontal Dropdown Menu, and Apple Template, but something is throwing an error, and not showing the menu. Install is 1.3.8a.

(correct for URL)
chicagophoto <dot> net <forward-slash> apple

If you could point me in the right direction to finding what is causing this that would be a great help! Odd thing is, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt' depending on what you click.

BTW. The "chaddro" category is supposed to be hidden. Click home, you see the error. Click chaddro and you get the drop menu and no errors... ???

Gotta love programming!

-chaddro