Manufacturers

This section describes the management interface for manufacturers.

Site Actions

Add Manufacturer
Adds a new manufacturer.
Delete Manufacturer
Deletes the current displayed manufacturer.
View Manufacturer
Opens the Manufacturer in a pop-up window to quickly check the appearance of the Manufacturer without leaving the LMI.
Goto Manufacturer
Leaves the LMI and goes to manufacturer view.

Tabs

Data

Name
The name of the manufacturer
Slug
The unique last part of the manufacturer’s URL.
Short description
The simplified description of the manufacturer. Displayed on the list of all manufacturers (/manufacturers).
Description
The detailed description of the manufacturer. This is displayed on the detail view of the manufacturer.
Image
Logo of the manufacturer.

View

Active formats
If this check box is activated several formats for this manufacturer can be overwritten. Otherwise the formats are inherited from the shop.
Product cols / Product rows

Amount of columns and rows which are used to display the products of the manufacturer. The amount of products which are displayed calculates by cols * rows. If there are more products than that the products are automatically paginated.

Note

This is only available if Active Formats is True.

SEO

This tab is used to optimize your pages for search engines. You can enter data for all meta data fields. However LFS provides some reasonable default values for all fields.

Meta title
This is displayed within the meta title tag of the manufacturer’s HTML tags. By default the name of the manufacturer is used.
Meta keywords
This is displayed within the meta keywords tag of the manufacturer’s HTML page. By default the short description of the manufacturer is used.
Meta description
This is displayed within the meta description tag of the manufacturer’s HTML page. By default the short description of the manufacturer is used.

Note

You can use several placeholders within these fields:

<name>
The name of the manufacturer.
<short-description>
The short description of the manufacturer (only within meta keywords and meta description field).

Products

In order to assign products to the manufacturer, select the check boxes of the corresponding products within the section Selectable Products and click on Add To Manufacturer.

Products Tree

Within this tab you can assign categories and products to the manufacturer.

To assign all products of a category to the manufacturer just check it. If you want just a sub category or single products of it, click on the category to expand the children.