Button to delete category without deleting products assigned to other categories too

Yeah, that is exactly what I am talking about, we just need it for Prestashop :-), the option of deleting the images associated would be great too.

Yes, but every time I run the "Images that are not linked to any product" diagnostic the connection to the server breaks in the process and I never get to the end, because it takes too long. If I had some way of running it by parts (x /img/p directories) I think it would work, but as it is I never get to the end. I must say I have several thousands of images.

Anyway, the option on the image when deleting categories would avoid having to run the diagnostic after deleting products.

It's not that I don't wait for it to finish. The connection drops in the process and the diagnostic stops, and I have to restart it again. I'll try with the bridged connection.

Hi, I was just checking this issue with the categories again. The best thing would be that the Store Manager would offer the same options than the Prestashop 1.5 backend when you try to delete a category. Please see attachment.
Those 3 options are good. The last one would be the "safe delete".

Yosh what you can do for now is move all the products to "category B" all at once. You dont have to do it one by one. Just view that category and control A to select them all and then drag them to the left into "category B" and then options will pop up and if you select option to move it to this category and create new default. This will not only move all the product to the category but they will not have cat. B as the default cat. ..its similar to copy and past. Then Cat. A will be empty and you can delete it so really no need for this new feature.

Also if you dont want to move them...when you delete a category with products inside them and click yes to all I believe that does delete everything including images.

Your solution does not work for me because inside category A only some products also show in category B. There is no point in having to move them all to a category which they don't belong to just to remove the parent category. I meant one by one because when you have thousands of products you don't know exactly to which categories each product is assigned. And I strongly believe there should be at least a notification when deleting a category that would say that all the products it contains will be deleted, including those that are assigned to other categories. Right now it does not say anything and it can cause unexpected loss of products because it does not behave the same than the back office. What I am talking about is that when you delete a category it should only delete the products that belong to that category and no other.

It is called Prestashop Manager so I understand it should work as Prestashop does. I am not putting any pressure, I am just pointing out improvements and showing how some aspects of the backoffice work that could be implemented on the manager.

Any update on this? When is it scheduled for?

Regards.

I run always in the same problem as Yosh regarding the connection drop of the image diagnostic, so I's useless. It stops by himself after around 1h and approx. 7000 images or so.

Hi Sergiy,

I've seen the roadmap from http://www.prestashopmanager.com/store-manager-for-prestashop-roadmap/ for the current version which is i guess over. Any idea for new features in the next one and timing? could it be displayed on the same page?

just reminding about this issue and implementing the osCommerce logic when deleting categories, since its been over 2 years since I opened the ticket (and this feature was already present in BO on PS 1.5), as per Sergiy's last comment this suggestion has not been commented for a year and a half now.

If everything was "so easy"... That's what software engineers are for, to solve complex problems. Just implement the same methods than in the BO for this operation.

Please... this is important. At least show a message saying "are you sure you want to delete all products in this category?" before removing. I just lost a bunch of products...

any update on this? been almost 3.5 years already to implement something that is core in PS since ancient versions...

Yosh is right, you should delete category without deleting products.

Products without any other category assigned should go to "HOME" category, the others just stay in the others category assigned.
It is not logic to delete them like that.

Another vote here. I lost some critical information because I didn't realize Store Manager was doing that... So foolish to delete all products within a category. As Yosh mentioned, it's a core process in Prestashop and has been for ages!

What is the update here??