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lucidnz / Bootstrapify-4

A complete rebuild of Bootstrapify for version 4
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Hide empty collections in dropdowns #70

Open galenking opened 9 years ago

galenking commented 9 years ago

Click on the first item in the Air Tools menu to see what I mean on http://www.onlinetools.co.nz/collections/air-tools-1?preview_theme_id=30839105

galenking commented 9 years ago

Whoops, posted to the wrong issue. This is still an issue ;)

stewartknapman commented 9 years ago

@galenking Is that not confusing for a merchant if they have created a link in a linklist and then that link does not appear on the site where they expect it to?

I would say the current solution is actually more appropriate. Granted, It is not as 'pretty', but it is a lot clearer about what is going on.

I can understand maybe wanting to hide a collection if it is going to have a lot of items move in and out of it, which could potentially mean it would be empty at some point, like a sale collection. However, this feels like a power-user feature.

For this specific case I might consider an opt-in setting that says "don't show empty collections in dropdowns", which would indicate that the store owner has a clear understanding of what is going to happen.

I would rather alleviate the frustrations of the many—then make defaults for the few.