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  • Tito 314 posts 623 karma points
    Aug 04, 2011 @ 12:21
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    How do i manage document types to make a catalog in Umbraco 4.7?

    Templates and document types

    I need to develope a web that needs a catalog of products with the following requirements:

    - User needs to manage categories and categories inside categories.

    - Product can be in one or more categories.

    - One product can have several variants (references).

    - I have to import a catalog from a database

    I suppose i must make these document types:

    - Categorie (can have Categorie as children)

    - ProductVariant

    - Product (can have ProductVariant as children)

    I dont know if i am correct. And how could i relation the product with the categories...

    For the import i could make a page that querys the origin database and insert the categories, products programatically. How could i achive that?

    Im using Umbraco 4.7

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Richard Soeteman 4039 posts 12887 karma points MVP 2x
    Aug 04, 2011 @ 13:11
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    Hi,

    Why don't you use one of the Commerce solutions (UWebshop,Teacommerce, UCommerce)? These products will give you a full shop out of the box. If you use UWebshop or Teacommerce you van use CMSImport PRO to import the whole product catalog from your orginal database, it will keep the complete catalog structure that you have in the current database, again no programming needed.

    Cheers,

    Richard

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  • Tito 314 posts 623 karma points
    Aug 04, 2011 @ 14:11
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    Thanks, i would like a free option. I have seen that UCommerce 2.0 has a starter version that is free. But this catalog is not ecommerce enabled, i dont know if uCommerce 2 is too big to use for this project..

    How could manage this if i wanted to develope it? how could i manage the document types? could i use any available package?

     

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  • Tito 314 posts 623 karma points
    Aug 11, 2011 @ 13:25
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    Finally i am developing it. I have make the following Document types:

    • Product
    • Category
    • ProductVariant
    • Folder
    My tree goes like this:
    Catalog (folder)
    Category1 (Category)
    Product 1 (Product)
    Variant1 (ProductVariant)
    Variant2 (ProductVariant)
    Product 2 (Product)
    Product 3 (Product)
    Category2 (Category)
    Category3 (Category)
    The editor puts the product in the main category and then he assings the categories with the Multinode tree picker:
    But i think i will make a relation and use the Multipicker relation:
    Becouse it allows me inside a product see the categories and inside the categorie see the products.
    I have to see how can i create the relation and configure it but i think it can be the solution.

     

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