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1/23/2011 10:40 AM
 

I have a client who wants his products to be available via multiple drill downs (4). The best way to describe it is something to the effect of the way car part websites work:

Auto Make > Model > Year > Variant -- (eg: Chevy > Venture > 1999 > SL )

In my client's case, all items actually have all the same options so it would be nice to be able to select via any or all of the dropdowns (like all 1999 cars, or all cars that are Chevys and made in 2000 etc).

I imagine 4 dropdowns along the top of the cart or an accordian style left nav, but don't see any way this is currently build in? Am I missing something? Also, where would be the best place to store this variable data? It seems the "Variant" doesn't quite fit the model I am trying to produce. Right now, the information is embedded in the SKU.

Has anyone customized to do something similar? Or, is there built in functionality that I am not aware of?

Thanks

Tim

 
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1/23/2011 1:05 PM
 

To be a little more clear...

My plan is to give all the products multiple categories (so my wife's minivan would have 4 categories: "Chevy" "1999" "Venture" and "SL").

The way I have it setup right now is there are "4" main categories with lots of subcategories, so each product has subcategories assigned to it, one from each main category (as an aside, my client has nothing to do with cars, but his industry is too complex to explain).

I guess what I am really after is a way to request a search using an AND operator -- I need the search to be able to say: It must be "Chevy" and "1999". Does that make sense? It seems this has to have been done 1000 times and I don't want to have to write a completely new piece since my budget is gone for this client...

Thanks for any input!!

Tim

 
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1/24/2011 5:07 PM
 

The cart has the following filtering built in:

  • Category module - allows filtering of products at any category or subcategory level
  • The buynow module has the option to show a dropdown prepolulated with categories and ALL and a textbox that allows you to search and filter by category or filter on ALL products
  • Passing the categoryid in the querystring allows filtering products also ( http://www.smith-consulting.com/forum....)

Currently the cart does not have the "AND" condition filtering built in the way you described.

Christian

 
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