Add Listing using price plan limiting categories. Child categories not limited

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August 10, 2015 at 3:58 pm #48869

Alicia
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Hi there,

I was searching the forum to see if this issue I am having was posted. Not sure if this is just happening for me.

I have parent and child categories in my CPT. I have a pricing plan that limits the number of categories to 1. When I add a listing using that price plan, I have to select a parent category first (I guess that’s as designed) but then there is no limit to the number of child categories I can select. I cannot select any more parent categories though.

It leads me to believe that the category limit only works at the parent level. I would have assumed it should limit the number of categories regardless of whether they are parent or child categories.

Can you check this on your end and let me know if this is a bug?

Thanks.

August 10, 2015 at 10:04 pm #48922

Guust
Moderator

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I can confirm this is the same on my test site. I’ll flag it for the developers.

August 11, 2015 at 1:57 am #48935

Alicia
Full Member

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Thanks for the quick response. Guess I will need to use a workaround in the meantime.

August 11, 2015 at 1:06 pm #48970

Stiofan O’Connor
Site Admin

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It should count the sub cats, i have added a task for this to be looked at, i will keep u updated.

Thanks,

Stiofan

August 11, 2015 at 11:48 pm #49045

Alicia
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Thanks,

For clarification, as an example, if I have a limit of 3 categories, would the parent category count as 1 category?

I ask this because in our current plans, parent categories are included for Free and the child categories are counted towards the limit of 3. In other words, you can only select 3 child categories but any of the relevant parent categories.

I’m not asking you to change your parameters to accommodate our pricing plans. I just need to know how the category limit works so we can modify our category setup and limits accordingly.

August 12, 2015 at 8:58 pm #49147

Paolo
Site Admin

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As far as I remember, each category is counted, parent or child.

If you set a limit of 3 categories, users will be able to select 1 parent and 2 childs or 2 parents and 1 child or 3 parents.

I’ll let Stiofan confirm or correct my assumption.

Thanks for your patience,

August 13, 2015 at 5:12 am #49200

Stiofan O’Connor
Site Admin

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The limit should apply to all cats no matter if child or parent.
This will be looked at today.

Thanks,

Stiofan

August 14, 2015 at 1:14 am #49345

Alicia
Full Member

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Thanks. As a follow up, a person has to select a parent category before they can select a child category. Is this as designed or is this a bug as well?

August 14, 2015 at 10:00 am #49361

Stiofan O’Connor
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That is by design.

Stiofan
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