Categories Options Glitch

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For some reason in the Hikamarket | Market Options tab under category options, if you toggle YES for "Create categories for vendors", it will create a category for the vendor, however, the vendor loses the ability to select the product categories I created while they are creating a new product. I'm not sure if that is intentional or if it is a bug. Either way, as a result, all the products for a few of my vendor accounts are not correctly categorized because they didn't know any better.

Is there a way i can assign a group of products to a product category quickly, or do i have to go in to each individual product and assign their categories? ALSO, while the new sign ups have the ability to select product categories for their products (but they are not in a vendor category), the ones that did have a vendor category STILL have no access to the product categories. How do i get them the ability to select a product category for their products?

On a side note: It would be really great if we could allow the vendor to select a vendor category, and make the vendor category that they select the parent to the vendor category that is created automatically for them. Just an idea.

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Right now I Have Create categories for vendors” set to “no”, So any new vendors created have the ability to select the right product categories for their products.

However, any vendor that was created when it was set to yes can still only select their vendor category.

Would love a solution to this.

Thanks so much.

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This explanation helped a lot, but no matter how I configure this, I'm unable to achieve what we need. perhaps it is within the scope of the software's capabilities and perhaps no. Here is what we need:

1. Vendor Category is automatically created
2. All vendor's products are automatically listed in Vendor Category
3. When adding products, vendor has ability to list their product in a product category that we created... so, in other words, they have access to product categories as well

Our niche is going to be setting up hyper-local stores. So, we need to be able to categorize vendors based on their geographical location. Our Vendor Categories can conceptually end up looking something like this:

--- United States (country)
--- --- Texas (state)
--- --- --- East Texas (Region)
--- --- --- --- Greater Houston (County / City)
--- --- --- --- --- Cy-Fair (Blok)
--- --- --- --- --- Greater Heights (Blok)
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- Store 1 (vendor)
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- Store 2 (vendor)

Right now, we standardize the product categories and restrict access for vendors to create new ones. All products must be categorized somewhere in the product categories...

Is there a way I can assign a vendor to a vendor category automatically using mass actions or filters like:

On vendor creation if address_post_code REGEXP 77007|77008 create vendor category in category ID 12

I checked it out, but i couldn't find anything.

SIDE NOTES:

• It would be great if the vendor could select what vendor category they want to be listed under.
• It would be Ideal for the image created in the vendor details to be equal to the image created for the vendor category, just as the written details are the same.

PS - I'm sorry that this became a little long winded the subject entered some gray zones. The software is just so robust that it's difficult addressing issues one subject at a time, without it interfering it other issue. I'm still certain that Hikamarket is the solution we need but launching with such a concept as ours is proving to be an undertaking.