The Sections Structure screen is split into two – at the top you have a list of sub-sections and at the bottom you have a list of products, both applicable to the section you are currently viewing.
Account Type Selection
At the top right of the screen there is a drop down called ‘Account Type’ with a ‘Show’ button. This allows you to limit the information you see in the Sections Structure screen to only show products and sections specific to a particular customer account type (if you are using customer accounts). This is useful for viewing the information that different customer accounts will see.
Account Type Selector
The Sections Part Of The Screen
The Sections Part Of The Screen
Here you see the sub-sections for the current section. If you think of the current section as the parent, these are that section’s children. The buttons at the top of this list do the following:
Edit Section: This shows the section editing screen for the section you are viewing. For instance, when Sections Structure first loads, clicking this button will edit the main section’s settings.
Insert New Sub Section: This shows the section adding screen and when created the section will appear in the list, making it a child of the currently viewed section.
Sort / Reorder: This shows the reordering screen that allows you to move the sub-sections up and down to change their display order.
Once you have created some sub-sections via. the ‘Insert New Sub Section’ button you will see them appearing on the section list. Clicking on the title of one of these will transfer you to the section structure for that section. Now the page shows you sub-sections that appear on that section and products that appear on the section as well.
To help you navigate the section structure the top title bar contains the full path to the current section you are viewing and you can click on any of the previous section’s titles to go back to that level.
Each sub-section listed has an ‘Edit’ button that will launch the edit screen for that section and a ‘Delete’ button if you wish to remove the section.
The Products Part Of The Screen
The Products Part Of The Screen
The products part of the screen shows the products that will appear in this section. The buttons at the top of this list do the following:
Insert New Product Here: This shows the product adding screen and once added the product will automatically be added to the currently viewed section.
Sort/Reorder: This shows the reordering screen that allows you to move the products up and down to change their display order for this section.
Clicking on a product code or product name (or, indeed, the ‘Edit’ button) will show the product editing screen for that product. In addition there are two other buttons shown for each product, these are as follows:
Clone: The Clone button will launch the product adding screen but with the selected product’s details already loaded. This allows you to quickly and easily create a new product based on a product that already exists in the database.
Remove: This does not delete the product from the system, it simply removes it from the current section. All other sections the product appears in are unaffected by this.
Delete: This option will delete the product from the database entirely. N.B. This button will not be available if there is sales history for the item.
In addition, if you have the stock control system turned on and the option selected to show stock levels on this screen, you’ll see a column with applicable stock levels shown.
At the bottom of the product part of the screen is a search box. This allows you to quickly search for products to add to this section. The screen that appears will show you a list of all products found, along with a select button for each one. In addition to this, the checkboxes to the left of each product allow you to select more than one product from the list and then clicking on the ‘Select’ button at the top all of these products will be added to the current section. You will, of course, be taken back to the relevant section once you have selected products.