0 Replies Latest reply: Aug 7, 2013 11:49 AM by jefferis RSS

    Strategy for product display in multi -multi categories??

    jefferis Community Member

      Hi guys,

      My client wants many many variations of product catalogs... too many to do effectively by creating catalogs for each one. I'm trying to figure out the best way of doing this and I realize there is a potential problem with keywords and tags.  As I understand it, I have keywords and have created "tags" in Custom (column) 1 .    I realize you can create a featured list by calling a tag, but here's the problem...   All Cartier  watches are tagged with watch, but not all watches are Cartier.   To give you the idea of the complexity of this layout, here's a sample of some of the current catalogs I'm moving over to BC:

       

      Watches (36)

      Cartier Jewelry (4)

      Now multiply this by several brands, like Tiffany and the like, and you get many many crossovers.

       

      So I have a couple of questions:   what is the safest way to enter tags and keywords for a featured list, e.g.: with or without commas???

      Rather than create a separate catalog for each of these many options,  is there a way to create a display catalog from keywords or tags?  I started creating a featured list, but IF I use Rings, for example, it calls up all rings and not just rings that are Cartier rings or Tiffany rings.

       

      In addition, he has an entirely separate catalog that is of archived items for custom jewelry already sold as examples and not for sale, and they too have rings, bracelets, etc...

       

      If I could call up featured items in ONLY a single catalog  and exclude all rings from other catalogs, it might work... But I'm kind of stumped as how to best do this..

       

      TIA,

       

      Jeff

       

      PS... this was so much easier in php creating dynamic catalogs I could control...