============= 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 :term:`LMI`. Goto Manufacturer Leaves the :term:`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: The name of the manufacturer. 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.