Removing the "This catalog has no products" message.

Question

I have a hierarchy that has catalogs within a catalog that go to their own departments of products. On the main catalog page however, there's a message displaying that "This catalog has no products." I'm aware of that, it's intentional (in the future they may sell things other than courses), so how do I get rid of the error message?
http://www.grahamwebbacademy.edu/classes
This is one of the last things to do before launch of the cart so I appreciate any help!
Thanks!
    Wendy

Answer 1

Wendy, you just need to look at this, very easy:
{tag_productlist}
Lists the products in the current catalogue (Use {tag_productlist,u,v,w,x,y,z} where u is the number of products per row; v is the target frame, e.g. _blank or leave empty; w is the number of products per page (limit of 500 products per page); x is the sort type, e.g. Price, or Alphabetical; y allows you to hide empty message, e.g. 'this catalog has no products' and z is list type). Change: {tag_productlist,4} to {tag_productlist,4,,,,,true} to display as LI.
So you can see your options
{tag_productlist,u,v,w,x,y,z}
So you can see that Y is the option to hide the message.
Here is a working example
{tag_productlist,2,,,Weight,true,true}
2 items per row does not matter as the last option showing true turns the table layout into an li. The true before it hides the empty message.
You will note that I have Weight in the ordering.
While not documented you can use weight, weightreverse and date, datereverse here as well as price and althebetical ordering.
Very easy.