Re: Miva Merchant 9 Admin Optimization Requests
As our inventory has grown over the years, we have needed to add more and more categories in order to allow our customers to drill down through hundreds of products. Some categories now go four levels deep with 100 sub categories between levels. Many of our categories have some type of data or script in the footer that is specific to a particular group of categories/sub-categories. This data may consist of a table, javascript, and/or toolkit code. Because of code contained in the footer, you cannot export and edit the category footers. (excel will not open file)
When we edit a group of sub-categories, we use to just click through the category list and open each sub-category in order. (using shift click to open in new window) We would paste the new code and save. Less than a second to get to the next category and the color change of the link (visited link) would show us visually which had been edited.
With the new admin interface, there is no way to track which have been updated so we need a pen and paper to write each one down. Then, we need to go back to the beginning and click through three to four levels to get to the next category. While the inline editing is a great new feature, it does not work for headers and footers because the field is too small.
What would help would be some type of advanced search in the category section of the catalog that would allow you to search on the parent category field and isolate just the categories belonging to a specific parent AND a way to open/edit each category without having to go back to the beginning AND keep track of which have been edited. (history function might work if the sub-categories could be isolated)
As our inventory has grown over the years, we have needed to add more and more categories in order to allow our customers to drill down through hundreds of products. Some categories now go four levels deep with 100 sub categories between levels. Many of our categories have some type of data or script in the footer that is specific to a particular group of categories/sub-categories. This data may consist of a table, javascript, and/or toolkit code. Because of code contained in the footer, you cannot export and edit the category footers. (excel will not open file)
When we edit a group of sub-categories, we use to just click through the category list and open each sub-category in order. (using shift click to open in new window) We would paste the new code and save. Less than a second to get to the next category and the color change of the link (visited link) would show us visually which had been edited.
With the new admin interface, there is no way to track which have been updated so we need a pen and paper to write each one down. Then, we need to go back to the beginning and click through three to four levels to get to the next category. While the inline editing is a great new feature, it does not work for headers and footers because the field is too small.
What would help would be some type of advanced search in the category section of the catalog that would allow you to search on the parent category field and isolate just the categories belonging to a specific parent AND a way to open/edit each category without having to go back to the beginning AND keep track of which have been edited. (history function might work if the sub-categories could be isolated)
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