[TYPO3-commerce] Category shortcut to first subcategory

[Ian Solo]

Hi Franz,
thank you very much for your answer.
I'll try to follow your suggestions and if I succeed I'll post here the 
solution.

Greetings!ian

Franz Koch wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
>> Maybe I bad formed the question...
> 
> your question was quite clear.
> 
>> I have a commerce category structure like this one:
>> Main Category 1
>>     Sub Category 1a
>>     Sub Category 1b
>> Main Category 2
>>     Sub Category 2a
>>     Sub Category 2b
>>     Sub Category 2c
>> Main Category 3
>> Main Category 4
>>     Sub Category 4a
>>     Sub Category 4b
>>
>> Then I have a main menu with the main categories:
>> Main Category 1 - Main Category 2 - Main Category 3 - Main Category 4
>>
>> E.g.: how can I make the "Main Category 2" link equal to "Sub Category 
>> 2a" link?
> 
> I'm not aware of such a functionality and I don't think this is 
> something you can tweak with some clever TS - so I guess you might have 
> to implement it by your own.
> 
> You might want to have a look at 'lib/class.tx_commerce_navigation.php' 
> which is responsible for building the fake menu-array. Implementing it 
> should not be a to big problem. Add a new db-field to the categories 
> table where you define the shortcut and check for it in the mentioned 
> class. Adding all functionality of shortcuts known from pages might be a 
> little bit more tricky - but should also be no problem to do.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> -- 
> Greetings,
> Franz