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  • Fuji Kusaka 2203 posts 4220 karma points
    Apr 07, 2011 @ 07:42
    Fuji Kusaka
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    Product Listing

    Hi Guys,

    Am looking for a very simple way of making a simple  product catalogue for a client. There will be a category, then from there you can choose the product to display the content.

    There will be no shopping cart, just a simple product catalogue.

    I was thinking on making the product catalogue the same way as a news section but how to i categorize the items??

    Can someone advise me??

  • Rich Green 2246 posts 4008 karma points
    Apr 07, 2011 @ 07:59
    Rich Green
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    Hey,

    The main question to consider here is if a product can fall under more than one category?

    If not then it's really simple, just create a category doctype and allow products below them:

    Product Cat 1

    Product 1

    Product 2

    Product Cat 2

    Product 3

    If a product can be under multiple categories then the solution will be a little different so let me know.

    Rich

     

  • Fuji Kusaka 2203 posts 4220 karma points
    Apr 07, 2011 @ 09:01
    Fuji Kusaka
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    Hi Rich,

    No  the product falls under 1 Category Only.

    It should be a very simple product catalogue in fact.

     

    Fuji

  • Rich Green 2246 posts 4008 karma points
    Apr 07, 2011 @ 09:16
    Rich Green
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    Hey,

    Should be a nice clean solution then.

    Did my description make sense or do you need more info?

    Depending on how many product categories you have you might want to list them under a 'products' node, so:

    - Products 

    - Product Cat 1

    - Product 1

    This will give you a nice url of http://siteName/products/productCat1/product1

    Rich

  • Fuji Kusaka 2203 posts 4220 karma points
    Apr 07, 2011 @ 09:25
    Fuji Kusaka
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    Rich,

     

    Are you telling me to categorize them by creating a document Type??

     

    Am not sure...Sorry

     

     

  • Rich Green 2246 posts 4008 karma points
    Apr 07, 2011 @ 09:45
    Rich Green
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    Hey Fuji,

    Yes, by document type

    So:

    Create the following 3 following doc types 

     

    1. Products
    2. ProductCategory
    3. Product
    Then

     

     

    • Under your 'Home' doc type allow 'Products'
    • Under the Products doc type allow 'ProductCategory'
    • Under the 'ProductCategory' doc type allow 'Product'
    • Go to your content and under Home add a node called 'Products' of Doc Type 'Products'
    • Under 'Products' now add your first category (doc type 'ProductCategory')
    • Under this category add any products you need (doc type 'Product')
    You can then add as many Product categories and products as you like.
    Your site content structure should now look something like this:
    -Home
    -Products
    -Product Cat 1
    -Product 1
    -Product 2
    -Product Cat 2
    -Product 3
    -Product 4
    This should give you want you need, let me know how you get on.

    Rich

     

  • Fuji Kusaka 2203 posts 4220 karma points
    Apr 07, 2011 @ 09:56
    Fuji Kusaka
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    Ill give it a try but still am a little confused on how the products will be displayed on any of my pages.

    Let say i want to display it on any page, i will then need to create a marcos by changeable soure but how will i get different Product Cat on the product page and not only Product 1 or product 2??

     

    Fuji

     

  • Rich Green 2246 posts 4008 karma points
    Apr 07, 2011 @ 10:09
    Rich Green
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    Hi,

    There are various ways of doing this, but the above structure should mean that everything is stored correctly so you can grab it from whereever you need it.

    Could you explain further how you want to display the products.

    Here are some examples:

    • To list any number of products on a specific page - Use the uComponents MultiNodeTreePicker to select and order the products you want to display
    • To list any number of product categories on a specific page - Use the uComponents MultiNodeTreePicker to select and order the product categories you want to display 

    What's nice about this structure is that if you add 'Products' to your main menu the user can drill down, so the 'products' page lists all the 'product categories' then the 'product category' page lists all the products.

    Hope this makes sense?

    Rich 

  • Fuji Kusaka 2203 posts 4220 karma points
    Apr 07, 2011 @ 13:13
    Fuji Kusaka
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    Hi Rich,

    Sorry for the responding now......i will work it out later on and let you know how things are. But yes i think it might be possible to do it this way.

     

    Fuji

  • Rich Green 2246 posts 4008 karma points
    Apr 07, 2011 @ 13:37
    Rich Green
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    Hey Fuji,

    No worries.  If you come across any problems let us know and we can go through them.

    Rich

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