[ic] How to build product categories?

Grant interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Mon Nov 4 14:04:00 2002


>I see that the product table has product group and category fields. Is
>product categorization limited to 2 levels? What if I want to do
>something like
>
>Parts
>   Product type (vacuum, appliance, ...)
>      Brand
>	 Part type (hose, bag, ...)
>...
>
>for users to browse and search?
>
>Would I create a group called Parts, a category of part types and add a
>product field called brand, then use brand as a filter? Is there already
>a place for brand that I'm not seeing? Is it possible to add additional
>fields?
>
>Thanks,
>Gerry

I don't tie into the UI for my category display so I'm not sure about how to
get that working with three levels of categories, but you can use an unused
field in your products database for "brand", or add a new field simply by
adding it to the txt file.  Be sure you use the tabs correctly.

- Grant