I was reviewing a collection I am in the process of creating for a customer when I scrolled down the page below products and found the following text "Other Collections you may like by (Store Name)." Then there are collections shown below this text. The issue is that the collections shown are NOT from this store. It is a themed store and the collections shown are not in the same niche. See the image below:
Please fix this misrepresentation of the origin of the collections shown.
Thanks,
PC
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I am also struggling with this issue. I have started up my second store. Both stores are niche stores that I do not want to display collections from the other.
Join us on FB to promote your holiday products.My main store is Col's Creations with about 40 Collections. I have a second small store, The Pastiche Boutique, with 1 Collection. Viewing a Col's Creations Collection, the one from The Pastiche Boutique store doesn't show up in the "Other Collections You Might Like" scroll just because it's statistically unlikely. However, viewing the one Collection from The Pastiche Boutique store, then the scroll shows 12 Collections from Col's Creations. Because there's nothing else it could show.
So I did a little testing this morning and the solution is simple though not obvious. For each Collection I already had "visible in these stores" set to just that store so that one store's Collections wouldn't be showing on the Collections tab of the other store. But below that is "Default Store" which was not set (see notes below for more on that).
So I started setting Col's Creations as the Default Store for my Col's Creations Collections and presto! - they immediately disappeared from the ""Other Collections You Might Like" scroll under the The Pastiche Boutique Collection. Just finished setting the Default Store for all of my Col's Creations Collections to Col's Creations and now the ONLY Collection that shows in the scroll on the The Pastiche Boutique store's Collection is the one of The Pastiche Boutique products that I want there.. This stays true signed in or out. Here's my one Collection from The Pastiche Boutique and you can see that now it doesn't show any Collections from my Col's Creations store on the scroll.
Collections are complicated since they are member level and thus can appear in multiple stores in multiple places including on your member profile. But for this particular situation, the solution is easy:
If you want only Collections from Store A to appear in the "other collections" scroll when viewing Collections in Store A, then set the default store on them to Store A.
Important note: If you are on the main Collections listing grid of either your store or member profile and use the Edit to open the Edit panel options for a Collection (without actually opening the Collection), setting the Default Store from there doesn't stick. You have to actually open the Collection and then click Edit from inside the Collection and set the Default from there. Then it sticks and you'll see it's immediately removed from the scroll on other stores' Collections.
Additional note: In my case, using the Edit from outside the Collection, it always showed the appropriate store already as Default. But opening the Collection and using Edit from there, it always showed no store selected yet. And even though setting a default from there makes it "stick", when you return and again open the Collection and then Edit, it still shows as none being selected. That's just a glitch I guess but don't worry about it as regardless, the goal of not having that Collection show in other stores' scrolls has been achieved.
Sorry this is so long but there were a lot of weird details I didn't know how to succinctly explain. Bottom line is you can constrain the "other Collections" scroll to just Collections from the same store.
Ahhhgg, hold up on all of the above. 😥
So now that its been an hour or two since I set the default store on everything, some of the Collections are again showing up in the "other Collections" scroll, and sometimes the scroll isn't even there at all on the page. I maybe changed too much at one sitting. I'll give it a few days for "indexing" to catch up and see what happens.
unfortunately, this did not work for me. At first, it appears to work. But then I refresh my view and my smaller store still shows collections from my other store.
My smaller more sarcastic brand: Still Sucking Oxygen
Yep. 😞
Forgot to go back and check on my Collections 'til now. It's been four days now since I set the default store on everything, more than enough time I think for "indexing" to figure things out, and the Collection from The Pastiche Boutique IS showing 12 Collections from Col's Creations again. It's so weird that setting the default store immediately removes them from the scroll on other stores' collections. Can't know if THAT'S the glitch, or if the glitch is that they return again. 😕
It's definitely a glitch though that no matter how many times you set the default store (and there's always only the one to choose), that anytime you open the edit panel from inside the collection, it always still shows "Select one" again.
It kind of seems to me though that since setting it does temporarily remove them from the other scrolls, that that's probably what's supposed to happen with this option, but it's just not "sticking".
there is clearly something wrong with the code. 😉 They just need to have their developers pay attention to this thread. 🙂 This has been an ongoing issue for months now.
I just sent a direct message to @Scott with a link to this thread asking for his attention.
I don't have enough stores & Collections to experiment on that idea, but wondering if you use similar descriptions w/ same keywords, and same tags, if that would increase the odds of coordinated collections from the other stores appearing on the scroll or if they'd still be as seemingly random as they are now?
Collections were a game-changing addition to Zazzle, it's a pity we don't have more control over which show up where.
