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Hi, does anyone have an idea how to make a product catalog?
It it would be easy to use one of navigations which are listed in wiki, but I want to list things by product type / manufacture and then list its sub pages.
Does anyone have a good idea how to implement it?
Last edited by Wolf (2009-11-25 08:37)
Hi again Wolf! 
It might help to give some examples. The first thought that comes to mind is to use tags for this, but I'm not sure how you would keep your "product" tags and "manufacturer" tags separate (which you probably want to do?).
What's the site organization? One big set of products, all as child-pages to the "Product" page? or lots of "product" pages with their own child-pages?
Etc.! There's probably more than one solution here ....
Products with child pages, David.
I give you an example...
I want to sort them by product types:
- Classical
-- Bach
--- Album 1
--- Album 2
-- Vivaldi
- Rock
-- AC/DC
-- Metallica
--- Album 1
But another menu Should categorize them by manufacturer too:
- Universal
-- Classical
--- Bach
---- Album 1
---- Album 2
- Sony
-- Rock
--- AC/DC
--- Metallica
---- Album 1
If I would categorize them by only by one categories, it would be easier...
I could create 2 sub menus, but then you have to copy pages from one to another, but if one page changes, the other remains same and if there are more products, its really hard to keep them same...
Last edited by Wolf (2009-11-25 09:42)
Hmmm.... This would take some thought.
But one quick thought is that you could do this with page parts, and use the Children-by-Part plugin to do the sorting for you.
Parts could be =
body < product description (= defalt part)
label < "manufacturer"
genre < "category"
artist < band/composer
The page title would be the individual CD/product. So -- just *one* page tree, then ("Products" or "CDs" or whatever), and let the plugin do the selecting/sorting.
This is an intriguing problem ... sadly lack of time here, or I might make an attempt at some "dummy" pages! Maybe you can see your way forward with the instructions for children_by_part?
Let us know!
Edit: or you could use "tags" for the genres, and parts for the rest? Hmmm....!! 
Last edited by David (2009-11-25 12:36)
Hmmm.... This would take some thought.
I should quit before misleading you! 
But it did occur to me, that if you use the page-part solution, you won't be able to *control* the sort order, which you could do if you used that actual page structure itself to organize the products.
You could have a primary sort using the page tree, and then use tags for the secondary sorting?
I have one more idea... is it possible to detect which layout page is using? For example - if page is using layout called "Product" it wont be shown on menu. If it has layout called Menu it will.
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