Empty category question

Is there a setting to show message in an empty category that items are on the way?

Steve

create the category and set it as published - write the text you want to appear


the category will appear in the category list and if the user clicks it, the text you wrote will appear - you don't need to have products in the category for this to work

haydie wrote:

I think that is not what he asked, which I see was overlooked in development. When a category has zero products, there is no way to set a message. By default no message is shown when the recordset is empty.

Hello,

There is a way you can show some text on the category details page only if the category has no products.
You will need to modify the default nopCommerce code a bit, though.
In order to achieve that functionality you will have to edit the  ~/Presentation/Nop.Web/Views/Catalog/CategoryTemplate.ProductsInGridOrLines.cshtml file.

Choose where you want to add your text and add the following lines of code:

        @if (Model.Products.Count == 0)
        {
            <div>
        Your text here!
      </div>
        }

    
The model passed to the CategoryTemplate.ProductsInGridOrLines.cshtml is the CategoryModel. That model contains a List<Product> named Products. If the count of its members is equal to 0 the List is empty. That means that the category has no products.

Note: If you have the Include products from subcategories setting from Catalog Settings checked and you have products in the subcategories your text will not show.

Hope that helps!

Regards,
Anton