Thread: Category filtering

Hello all-
I posted this under Database too, not sure where it belongs.

Please forgive the ignorance, I just got this dropped in lap and am trying to bring some resolution to it. We have 2 types of customers, 1 that we private label products for and the other is generic items. When the private label customers login in, we only want them to see the private label products. We set up categories and subcategories for the generic items. Then we setup 1 category and several subcategories for the private label items. On our Place Order page it shows all the categories above the search criteria area regardless of the user that has logged in.
How do we setup the categories to filter correctly?
FYI-
We have 2 customer levels set up and filterproductsbycustomerlevel set to TRUE.

Thank you

Have you mapped the products to certain customer level already? The filterproductsbycustomerlevel parameter won't work until the mapping is done. Take a look at this manual.

Yes, all of the products are assigned to one of the 2 customer levels. It just needs to trim down the list of categories that are being displayed.

Perhaps a little clarification is in order.

We have a group of customers that have privately labeled items. We have set up a "master" category with a list of subcategories for those private label items.

The rest of the items have a list of "master" categories and sub categories under those.

So on the Place Order screen (where the search area is), if a private label customer is logged in, we dont want them to see the Non-Private label categories.

The opposite is also true, a non-private label customer should not see the private label category/categories.

Does that clear it up? How is this acheived? Do we need to modify a view or stored procedure? We are just looking for some direction.

Thank You

Still looking for some direction. Is there a stored procedure that can be modified to only show the categories that are valid for that customer's customer level?