AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

I would like to have a standard Navigation appear in the left sidebar on all pages, like it does on the home page with the ConLib [SimpleCategoryList}. However when you go to the category page, if there are no sub categories, it says "no sub categories here". Does anybody have an idea of how I could get that same nav to appear on all pages? And maybe on the categories that do have sub-cats, to show the sub cats expanded out.
It seems like the overall navigation choices are weak. I don't really like the look of the category tree.
thanks in advance
Caren

Read following thread
viewtopic.php?f=44&t=9560

That thread seems to be about how to show a catagory tree, but I want the Navigation buttons as seen on the home page to show all categories on all pages. I think it might be the ConLib called CategoryDropDownList.
But I am no programmer and I have no idea how to alter it to my needs.
Does anyone else fine the navigation options week in this program?
Thanks

in this case you need to use SimpleCategoryList on other desired pages. For example make use of ConLIb:SimpleCategoryList on category page and you will see the navigation on all subsequent pages.

caren:

I think what you are saying is that you want the high level categories to display on the product pages instead of the sub category. If so, I too would like to have something similar that would show the high level categories as well as the sub categories... I don't think the SimpleCategoryList will do this. I hope I am wrong.

You got it dean.
I have the SimpleCategoryList on all my pages but it only shows when there are sub categories. If there are only products displayed, there is a heading that says categories, and then, stupidly, it says "there are no categories here".
I want the high level cats on all pages.

crossing my fingers...

caren wrote:You got it dean.
I have the SimpleCategoryList on all my pages but it only shows when there are sub categories. If there are only products displayed, there is a heading that says categories, and then, stupidly, it says "there are no categories here".
I want the high level cats on all pages.

crossing my fingers...

I agree. That was my very first thought when i saw how the category list is displayed.

When you call the conlib, do it like this:

[[ConLib:SimpleCategoryList CategoryId="0"]]

Ah, so simple and so sweet! A thousand thanks, Judy.

Thank you jmestep
Ahhh.. great... I will give that a try. I would prefer it all the categories be displays all of the time.

I want the sub categories to appear on the left nav. I tried the CategoryId property, but it displays the same sub categories in children of category 2 as it does in children of category1.

I want Category 1 pages to have one uniform left nav on all its child pages, and I also want category 2 pages to have one uniform left nav on all its child pages. The left nav on category 1 pages are to be different from the left nav on category 2 pages.

If anyone has a solution for my situation please share.

My catalog look like this:

Category1
sub category
product
product
sub category
product
sub category

Category 2
sub category
product
product
sub category
product