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We think that you should make the tree like the previous version. Honestly, that was the easiest to use since it mimics the store front tree. This is huge, and it was one of the best characteristics we found on miva vs. other carts. We are having a huge headache having to look up the category codes to manipulate assigned products. It was MUCH easier to be able to navigate the admin tree, click assigned products, and edit / sort them accordingly. Right now, we have to find the specific category code for each, and figure out which is the parent, etc etc. Not happy about this at all.
The major flaw I see with your mockup, is that if a store has 4-5 subcategory levels, it's going to easily go off the page on the right. We have 70,000+ products on our website. Your mockup may work for a small store, but it's definitely complicated on a store w/ 100+ categories / subcategories. Please make the navigation easy to use as the previous version. We shouldn't have to navigate an odd left-to-right interface and sort through each time we are looking for a category. I understand you're trying to make it prettier and easy to use, but that style doesn't even work well with Microsoft Windows, and it wouldn't work well here. We would like to be able to click specific catagories and their subcatgories at will. This is much more efficient. PLEASE make an effort to add this change in the specified manner. We've had Miva since version 2, but we are already thinking about moving to another cart as MIVA 9 has become more difficult for us to navigate. It's slowed down our work process quite a bit when updating products and categories.
So one thing is certain, the left side navigation is not coming back. But with that said, I am still struggling to get my head around what's really that different between the old way and the new (yet to be released) way.
That'll obviously be easier once 9.0001 is out in a couple weeks.
Kevin or Veniceninja if either of you (or Leslie) are willing, I'd love for you to talk with Zeph on our side (once you have 9.0001) and walk him through your pain points.
We are committed to solving your pain and committed to no left nav (at least not the old way/one). I'm sure we'll find a solution.
I would also be happy work with you. Yes, LOL, we all know the nav is not coming back I'm working on a detailed email weekend for you, which should provide some interesting info No more negative comments from me on the forum.
Anyone notice how sometimes you have to hit "UPDATE" (usually on the right) to save something, other times you have to hit a Disk Image (usually on the left)?
Just wanted to clarify the function of the new category management function in MM9 vs MM5.5...
At times, we make changes to a series of sub-categories that requires modifying code in say the footer or header of each sub-category in a parent category. (could be dozens of sub-categories) This is usually a fairly quick and simple process of opening the tree on the left, click on the first category, paste the code and save. Click on the next, paste code and save, etc. Takes a few seconds for each sub-category.
It looks like the new pop-out menu for the catalog is going to take you to the page to make the change them make you go back through the whole menu again clicking on each level to get to the next sub-category? If so, this is a huge step backwards in productivity.
Why wouldn't you just use a CSV import for those changes?
Because Excel doesn't play nice with fields loaded with punctuation, HTML, CSS, URLs, and Miva Script.
It is also easier to edit in a text box within Miva than a field in Excel.
We do use the CSV import/export frequently for updates, but there are also many that do not work well that way.
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