Develop Ablecommerce 7.0

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acrab
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Develop Ablecommerce 7.0

Post by acrab » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:47 am

I saw that Ablecommerce 7.0 doesn't limit number of categorizes and products.
So, Can I build a website selling many kinds of products like Electronics, Clothes, Books...?
Does Ablecommerce 7.0 enable developer to construct new function for a specified categorize?
I didn't find any website built by Ablecommerce 7.0 that sell different kind of product. If you can, please show me a website like that?

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Re: Develop Ablecommerce 7.0

Post by jmestep » Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:54 am

I'm not sure why you think it would be a problem. You can have any number of categories and any number of products. If you want a different "look" for each product line, you can select a different theme. For example, this site has purchasable paintball products, but also has a paintball museum for out of production products, with a different theme applied to each:
Purchasable:
http://www.directpaintball.com/

Museum:
http://www.directpaintball.com/Paintbal ... C4997.aspx

You can also set your left nav to display categories under a particular category id - if you use categoryid=0, that displays them all, but if you use different category ids, it displays only the links under that main category.

All this narrows down to the same checkout, though.
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Re: Develop Ablecommerce 7.0

Post by acrab » Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:11 pm

Thank you for your response.
Now, my site has 20 categories. I want to add a new category, please show me some guide (code or document about Ablecommerce 7.0...) to do that.

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Re: Develop Ablecommerce 7.0

Post by jmestep » Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:42 pm

You just go to the admin, click Catalog -->Browse. Over at the right there is a link to add a new category. Help docs are located at help.ablecommerce.com.
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Re: Develop Ablecommerce 7.0

Post by acrab » Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:35 am

Thank you.

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