Exclude category hierarchy

Anonymous

#7521

Hi,
I just purchased this plugin specifically for this purpose.
It seems exclusions of parent categories do not exclude associated child categories – is this true?

Can this be implemented/fixed?
When do you expect this could happen?
Thanks

Ross Moderator

#7551

Hey there

Do you mean in the results (ie via the settings box)?

Thanks

Anonymous

#7614

I mean the search criteria for contextual searches
Example: http://www.superette.co.nz/mens/eyewear.html

Ross Moderator

#7616

I’m not sure I follow you. How are you excluding categories? And how is this affecting your results in comparison to the way you expected?

Thanks

Anonymous

#7618

We haven’t set up the result yet

We’re only interested in search ui at this stage

If we exclude a parent cat ID the child cats are still selectable.

Logically all child cats would be excluded when specifying a parent?

We’re trying to understand why this would not be the case?

Ross Moderator

#7625

No this would depend if you wanted it hierarchical I guess – have you enabled “hierarchical”? I think this might then as you expect.

Child categories are categories in their own right so in some circumstances parents might need to be hidden and some children still shown – if the above doesn’t work then you should just be able to comma seperate ids and list the child IDs to exclude them.

Thanks

Anonymous

#7628

It should be an option to not exclude child categories in hierarchies.

I can’t imagine why if i want a to filter with a single category, let’s say men’s t-shirts why we should have to exclude every other category.

Obviously including just the parent we want to filter within would be far quicker & simpler.

As you’ve only provided exclude – we’d have to exclude everything else. not just the parent cats we don’t want.

You can see the shortfall of your approach for this purpose – surely, or am i on my own here?

Ross Moderator

#7631

Hey Webster

I can see what your saying about parents and children – would be nice to have a tickbox that would say include/exclude children too – I’m just giving the rationale for why it is the way it is atm.

FYI, if you have a look at the settings box, there is an “include” option. Basically in your field, goto advanced settings and tick “sync with settings” – this field will now ignore the exclude box (I plan to make this include/exclude options).

But, goto settings panel, click on “tags, categories, taxonomies”, and there you will see you can include / exclude whatever you want 🙂 Only thing is there are no considerations again for children.

The field, because you clicked “sync with settings” will follow any settings you put here.

Thanks

Anonymous

#7635

We did try that. It disabled hierarchies…

Ross Moderator

#7638

Ah ok, so you’ve enabled hierarchies for your field, and when you then choose “sync with settings” this then breaks the hierarchies functionality?

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