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Dragon41673
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2 years 5 months ago #344508

-- HikaShop version -- : 4.6.1
-- Joomla version -- : 3.10.11

I've tried searching, but cannot seem to find the answer...I get close, but it's never right, so I apologize if this has been asked before.

On my site, the category listings along with the product listings are all good & well...but, there is an influx of new people to some of the items I carry, and it can be a bit overwhelming sometimes for them to figure out which product is the right one, or what manufacture is the one they need to look at.

So what I'd like to do is have an additional category selection area where I can list stuff for the specific game systems I carry rather than just listing the manufacture. Such as...

Manufacture A has XYZ products
Manufacture B has JKL products
Manufacture C has RST products

But all 3 of those above manufactures make items for the same game system. So I'd like to have a category that allows me to put all 3 manufactures into the same spot...but, also keep them listed individually as they are now. More or less like a "if you play this game check out these manufactures"...is that making sense?

Reason I don't want to "move" the manufactures into a specific single category is because some of the items they make can be used for other game systems too.

Owner - Aries Games & Miniatures

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2 years 5 months ago #344510

Hi,

Each product can be linked to several categories.
So instead of :

main product category
 - category 1
  - sub category 1
  - sub category 2
 - category 2
  - sub category 3
  - sub category 4

You could have:

main product category
 - shop by manufacturer
  - category 1
   - sub category 1
   - sub category 2
  - category 2
   - sub category 3
   - sub category 4
 - shop by type of game
  - category 3
   - sub category 5
   - sub category 6
  - category 4
   - sub category 7
   - sub category 8

And thus, instead of one menu item with its main category being "main category", you could have two menu items, one with its "main category" being "shop by manufacturer" ( which would display the same thing), and one with its "main category" being "shop by type of game" which would list the products by type of game.
Then, in your products instead of having only one category in the "categories" setting, you could have two or more categories so that each product could appear for his manufacturer AND for one or several type of game categories.

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Dragon41673
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2 years 5 months ago #344514

That was a thought too...thank you Nicolas.

Quick question in response to that. When I use the "action" option in the menu to add a category to items. I've noticed that in the new category they do not retain their "order" number.

How can I mirror the order of those items when adding a new category via the action option?

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