Display of Categories

• In order to switch to the Card overview or List view mode please click into the radio box [CardView] or [List View] of module CAT_MenuNF.
• For some older browser it would be better to write: (Red [HTML Place Holder] Wine) instead of (Red Wine) in categories since otherwise the text will wrap. (IE 5.2, IE 5.5)
• If they exist, category images will be displayed and tool tip texts with category description will pop up.

Select [Category System] = Advanced in the edit module [select ]View Options[ from the module menu] to display the advanced categories in module CAT_MenuNF. Use the page [Advanced Categories] of module CAT_Products to assign advanced categories to a product.
The greatest advantage of the advanced category system is that you can create unlimited category levels and assign one product to an unlimited number of categories.

With the [Link URL] property of the advanced categories you can define a home page for each category. This can be used to separate categories on different portal pages (assign shops to different pages) with the use of category restrictions in the presentation layer modules and the child category level display of module CAT_MenuNF. The modules CAT_SearchNF, CAT_MenuNF, CAT_DashBoard and CAT_ItemPaneNF use the Link URL from the category (of a product:  module: CAT_DashBoard and mini dashboard of module CAT_ItemPaneNF) and redirect to the right page to display the product detail page, the selected category or the search result from the search in a selected category or in all categories.

There is one disadvantage compared with the standard category system: The tree control of the standard category system stores its structure for each module. If you have several CAT_MenuNF modules on several Pages they will remember their last selections. This helps customers to go back to a previous search or selection. This feature is not available for the advanced category system. But you can mix both category systems.