Ben's Bargains

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I come to Bens Bargains looking for computer and technology items. Recently, I see an increasing number of items I'm not interested in (clothing, razors, vacuum cleaners, etc.) that makes it harder to find items of interest.

Sure there are filters, but there are two big problems that need to be addressed to make them usable:

1) AFAIK, the filter settings are not stored with my profile or in cookies. Every time I return to the site, the filters are forgotten and must be re-set. These filter settings must be saved to persist between visits. (including the previously mentioned "expired" items checkbox")

2) Selecting categories from a long flat list is tedious and annoying. Since there are so many categories, the list should be presented as a tree. At the top level, have no more than five categories (computer, electronics, appliance, apparel, other). Checking a top level category selects all sub categories. The sub category tree can expanded to select or unselect specific sub categories.

PS for tri state treeviews see: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/tree/Tri-State_Tree_View.aspx and http://www.jstree.com/

[Bens_Admin]

Thanks for your feedback, we'll investigate this.

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The new "tech only" selection is a step in the right direction, but the settings are still not saved as cookie or with my profile, as far as I can tell.

It doesn't even save for the session. If I click on the home link to Ben's Bargains, the settings are reset to defaults.

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Hi again - It's been a few months - are there any plans in the works to make the tech and expired settings sticky?

It would also be handy to have a few filter settings saved with a user profile. As I mentioned in my first post, it is tedious to set them, so if we can't make that better, at least let us save them once we create them.

[Bens_Admin]