This sub-section is used to configure product catalogue appearance.
Location in admin panel: Configuration → Website configuration (scroll page down to block "Catalog")
In this subsection you can configure navigation by catalogue and display of goods list.
This is how catalog will be displayed on your site. There are four main displays:
Let's look at every variant in detail.
Used if:
Therefore, select this mode if you want unaffected categories to appear on the site too and only external or only internal categories will be on one level of the hierarchy.
Thus you will get «mixed» catalogue containing both your categories and original categories from Taobao. Since each category has its own identifier (see more in section «Categories»), the repetition of themes and category names will be minimised.
This is a default catalog template installed with OT Box based website. The main advantages of this type of catalog:
This type of catalog display is suitable for launching a site, as well as for demonstrating the work of the store. This catalog cannot be edited (change names, bindings, sequence of categories), but you can export it. After export, it can be imported as “internal” and changed as you wish.
You can create your own catalog of goods for the site (or download “Predefined” to your computer and change it as you wish) in admin panel. See "Categories" section for more details. You should select this type to use only what you created in this section.
This is convenient if your store has a narrow topic and it is important for you that the buyer can quickly select necessary products and easily navigate in a huge selection of categories. This display also excludes any influence of changes in the sources of goods.
The original Taobao catalog with all categories is used in this mode. Categories are translated by an auto-translator as well as by dictionary with “manual” translations for the best match. In fact, this is a copy of Taobao catalog in English. Such display is convenient when catalog is used to access goods source (goods database).
Click blue dotted text to select necessary display:
A drop-down list appears, clicking a triangle to expand:
Select necessary display mode for catalog categories. Click necessary option and save your choice clicking checkmark button:
New catalog display will be available on the page with all categories after saving.
Selected mode will display categories on the left side of search results page. In fact, these are the categories participating in search.
There are four main category modes for searching:
Click blue dotted text to change category mode for search:
Select necessary mode in drop-down list:
Click checkmark button to save:
There is a page navigation in the catalog under products list that shows how many pages with this product are available for viewing. This is convenient when there are a lot of pages with the goods and it is enough for website buyer to see the beginning, end and page interval back and forth from the one where he is currently located.
Click blue dotted text to set interval of displayed pages:
Select necessary interval from drop-down list:
Save choice clicking checkmark button:
Changes take effect immediately after saving.
This is menu displayed on website on the left (by default)
This setting is available for old website template.
"Old template" setting is no longer available from version 1.13.0 of admin panel. Please contact technical support if you need to switch this setting. |
Defines behavior of menu of catalog categories:
Static (categories list) | Drop-down (two levels) | Drop-down (three levels) |
|---|---|---|
| You can see category and subcategories right away. | A subcategory appears when you hover over a category. Only transition to a subcategory is available when hovering over a subcategory. | A subcategory appears when you hover over a category. You get a subcategory of the third nest when you hover over a subcategory. |
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Click blue dotted text to select necessary navigation type:
Select one of three navigation types from drop-down list:
Save choice clicking checkmark button:
It is necessary to clear cache to make changes effective:
Indicated by number. All categories will be displayed in the menu if you set “zero” (0). The default value is 0.
The first 3 categories of goods will be displayed if you set "3"
Click blue dotted text to select necessary number of categories:
Enter a number from keyboard indicating number of displayed categories:
Save choice clicking checkmark button:
Changes will appear on the site immediately after saving.
There are two options to display rating:
| Icons | Numbers |
|---|---|
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Click blue dotted text to select appropriate option to display rating:
Select appropriate option in drop-down list:
Save choice clicking checkmark button:
Changes will appear on the site immediately after saving.
The ability to prohibit search for products by name, article and link to the product outside the categories of catalog is used to specialize the store. For example, you sell goods for children and want to show only children's cars to those customers searching for “Auto”. In this way we recommend to prohibit searching outside the catalog. Thus, products from “Auto-moto-goods” categories will not appear in search results.
Click blue dotted text to prohibit or allow search outside the catalog:
Select necessary action with a mouse click in drop-down list:
Save choice clicking checkmark button:
