I downloaded the latest free version (4.0.5) to play with and am finding things fairly easily but there's one display option I am not having any success with at all. I cannot find how to make the categories list show like it does in the Admin panel's left nav section, where you can expand and collapse the main categories to show sub-categories. I'd even be happy if I could have the categories show DHTML of the sub-categories with a fly out if you hover over a main category link.
 
I've test edited the Category List in a block on the CMS section of a page but it did not act the way I expected it to behave. Having it set as Multi-level shows too much info and it won't collapse (that made sense) while having it as Tree-type doesn't do anything other than make it One-level (that did not make sense). I also don't have any selection ability under the Select Number of Columns pull down menu. No options are shown to select. I can enter a number in the box under it but it doesn't do anything at all that I'm able to tell.
 
Please help me find the answer before I go completely bonkers!
 
Many thanks for any assistance!

Try:
 
Products (Sub Categories) List
 
Chris

Hi Chris,
 
Thanks for the suggestion! I guess I've been burning too much of the midnight oil because I am not able to find where that section is. I didn't see it under the edit section for the Categories List block that I included on the CMS for the CMS > Global > Home Page Layout.
 
I had already enabled the SubCategories Products checkbox through the edit of the specific category (which said it showed the products from the bottom subcategories). Only thing is it doesn't seem to do anything either checked or unchecked from what I've seen (tested all variations of themes with no difference so far in collapsing or flying out, neither works).
 
I noticed that there's a js call of
 
href="#" class="leftNavArr" onclick="overhid('leftside_group_1'); return false;"
 
within the Admin page source code that doesn't occur in the store source code. I could always go in and see what could be adjusted via the js scripts but I have this feeling it's something really simple within the settings (somewhere) that I'm just missing. I'd REEEEEALLY rather not have to dig through code if it's a setting already within Viart.
 
Would you please give me exact pathways to where there might be some snags so that I can make sure I'm hitting everything that might be fouling it up? Many thanks for your assist!
 
Mary

Mary, try
 
Administration > CMS > home (or other page) .....
 
You will find it in 'Available Blocks' to insert into the page as required.
 
You can see mine at malikstores.co.uk
 
Unfortunately I am not code savvy - just a simple marketing man.
 
So I need simple access to what I need so that's the extent of the help I can give and hope it helps
 
Regards
 
Chris

Hi Chris,
 
Thanks for the info. I've actually succeeded in coding something to where a flyout vertical menu automatically expands from the category list to however deep you want it to go (with all the CSS bells and whistles on backgrounds and hovers). And I've tweaked the code for the menu bar along the top so that it will do CSS tabs in a flyout format also where all you have to do is type in the new link in the CMS > Site Navigation section to create customized graphical buttons. No more having to make on or off button graphics in a graphics program for each button if you want a customized look.
 
I'm still tweaking the vertical category flyout block so that it will show on top of everything for all the pages rather than sometimes hiding under elements when you view other pages that have the Category List block. That shouldn't take too much longer to figure out. Overall it's working out really well.
 
One thing I do want though are arrows to the categories that have children so that it's easily understood that there's more under the button. I was able to get an extended character for the down and right arrows to show when I pasted them in the Site Navigation item name. That works really well. But I'm coming up against a problem when I try that with a category name. It always converts it out to plain text letters/numbers rather than an arrow character like ► or like what shows under the top menu bar. Any special characters I can type from the keyboard work fine. Any I copy and paste, always convert to text.
 
Do you or anyone else know if there's a way around that when entering the category name in, in Viart's admin panel? Is there a way to put a special exception tag to it so that it's spit out as an HTML character rather than just more text?
 
I've included screenshots of what I'm talking about. The category one that has an arrow is one that's able to be typed from the keyboard directly. The one that shows a bunch of letters and numbers on the second line is the same code that works correctly in the top menu bar but gets screwed up in the category list.
 
Mary