Display Products When Only 1 SubCategory?

Hi all,

On our site there are a couple of Categories that only contain a single SubCategory (I know that's largely pointless, however we receive a data feed from a distributor which contains all of the products, some of which have this structure).

Is anyone aware of a way that such a SubCategory can be 'skipped' if there is only one (similar to how product listing can be skipped when there is only one product)?

https://www.itconnexions.co.uk

Many thanks.

Nevermind...
No, there isn't a built-in way to do this. It could probably be coded, but is likely to be quite complex.

WellCool:

Hi all,

On our site there are a couple of Categories that only contain a single SubCategory (I know that's largely pointless, however we receive a data feed from a distributor which contains all of the products, some of which have this structure).

Is anyone aware of a way that such a SubCategory can be 'skipped' if there is only one (similar to how product listing can be skipped when there is only one product)?

www.itconnexions.co.uk

Many thanks.
Can be done, you can use an auto_loaders class, checking if visitors are viewing a category page, and if this category has one single sub cat (by querying the database), then do the redirection.

Maybe you could run the feed through EasyPopulate and apply some restructuring to it before uploading to your db? I don't know if it's possible to do that kind of manipulation as I haven't used EP.

So this redirection wouldn't change the sidebox display, only show a deeper subcat if applicable. Are the single subcats named the same as their parents, or will this redisplay cause confusion when the user sees a different category open than what they clicked on?

Thankyou for your replies.

Yes, the SubCategories have different names to the parent categories.

I thought that doing it through EP may be the best bet.

Many thanks.