Custom product tags - can this be done?

[mark754]

I'd like to add a feature which will list products meeting certain criteria. For example, all red widgets, all plastic widgets, etc., but I don't want to create separate categories for each of these criteria.

 

Is it possible to set up some variable "tags" (i.e. fields) in the product table and use these tags to produce lists of all products that have been tagged with these variables. For example, I would define one variable as color, one as material, etc., and input these in the product setup pages. This could be done by modifying the attributes feature.

 

Has anyone done this?

[boxtel]

I'd like to add a feature which will list products meeting certain criteria. For example, all red widgets, all plastic widgets, etc., but I don't want to create separate categories for each of these criteria.

 

Is it possible to set up some variable "tags" (i.e. fields) in the product table and use these tags to produce lists of all products that have been tagged with these variables. For example, I would define one variable as color, one as material, etc., and input these in the product setup pages. This could be done by modifying the attributes feature.

 

Has anyone done this?

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ofcourse, I have added a product_type field to the table and on the product_info page added a box which shows a random number of products of the same type. These are cross-category. In my case that can be type of material or type of layout, etc..