Manufacturers and Categories per store

[venditdevs]

Hi ,

In a multistore enviroment you can disable/enable a product for a store, but it's not possible for categories and manufacturers. that's a bit odd.

 

Anyone of you know if this will ever be implemented in a newer version of Prestashop. It seems they forgot this to be multistore compatible because why do we have a category_shop and manufacturer_shop if there isn't of any use?

I've read many posts about this issue and still there is no solution yet. We can write a module that can doe that but it isn't practical because other modules need an update too (e.g. blockcategories).

 

The only thing that has to be done is add a field 'active' to the category_shop and manufacturer_shop. Queries need to be updated to use cs.active (cs = category_shop) instead of c.active (category) and the controller needs an update.

 

 

[fred-vinapresta]

Hi, which version of Prestashop do you use? At least in 1.6, if you go to edit a category, you can associate it to a store, same for the manufacturers

[venditdevs]

Hi fred-vinapresta,

Yes you can, but you can't disable them temporarly for that shop.
If i want to disable them for a specific store i will have to remove them...that's something i ( and the customer) don't want. We want to disable it end re-enable it when we need it to.  

[venditdevs]

Addition: Yes you can uncheck the category but it isn't deactivated, it's just removed from the category shop table. Not very usefull if you want to enable it again by a module because you have no reference;)