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??
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??
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.
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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??
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
Hi Rich,
No the product falls under 1 Category Only.
It should be a very simple product catalogue in fact.
Fuji
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
Rich,
Are you telling me to categorize them by creating a document Type??
Am not sure...Sorry
Hey Fuji,
Yes, by document type
So:
Create the following 3 following doc types
Rich
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
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:
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
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
Hey Fuji,
No worries. If you come across any problems let us know and we can go through them.
Rich
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