Placing product in two categories?

[Ian Lawther]

Is there a way of having a product appearing in two categories at once without actually entering it in two places ( and having to tinker about with product quantities twice as a result).

 

I operate a specialist CD store at www.bagpipediscs.com and categorise the types of pipes on recordings by types but there are times there is an overlap which up to now I have covered by having an "Assorted Pipes" category but it would be nice to have the items in this area also appearing under the seperate Scots/ Irish/ Northumbrian categories as appropriate as well.

 

Any thougth appreciated,

 

Ian Lawther

[Remember]

After you add an item to your inventory you can click on the item and four options appear:

 

edit, delete, move, and copy to

 

The copy to button allows you to make a link to the product in a different category (which is what you are wanting to do) or copy the information to a different category (which will duplicate the entire product INCLUDING the quantity (not what you want to do)

 

It is very easy to do.

 

HTH

[♥kymation]

Is there a way of having a product appearing in two categories at once without actually entering it in two places ( and having to tinker about with product quantities twice as a result).

 

I operate a specialist CD store at www.bagpipediscs.com and categorise the types of pipes on recordings by types but there are times there is an overlap which up to now I have covered by having an "Assorted Pipes" category but it would be nice to have the items in this area also appearing under the seperate Scots/ Irish/ Northumbrian categories as appropriate as well.

 

Any thougth appreciated,

 

Ian Lawther

In the Admin, select your product and click on "Copy To." Select the second category that you want it to be in, leave "Link Product" selected, and click "Copy." You can have it in as many categories as you want by repeating the process. If you change any of the product fields in any of the categories it will change in all of them. If you want to be able to make different changes in the product for different categories then select "Duplicate Product."

 

Regards

Jim

[Guest]

HI there...

I posted in another category, not having seen this, so I apologize.

You seem to be discussing a similar thread. Here goes...

 

I am trying to sell the same basic product (service) in two+++ categories.

The raw material is the same, just the packaging size/price +name is different.

 

I don't need the attributes approach(I think) as only the product name changes. The products are destined to different language markets....but are the same and behave the same.

 

I have used Categories as the defining thing between languages/markets for the simple product which only varies in value & name.

 

I would like to have customers from each category(a language=market) choose from the same <warehoused> stock.

 

So a product worth say $10 in market/Category A would be worth X in some other category and have a different name, in their language(obviously).

 

The product is user codes for services, so there is no physical inventory.

 

Anybody have an idea please how to do this simply?

Many thanks...

[♥kymation]

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I don't need the attributes approach(I think) as only the product name changes. The products are destined to different language markets....but are the same and behave the same.

<snip>.

If the only difference is in the description language, then you can use the Language capabilities of osCommerce to have different descriptions for each language. The price will be translated into the currency that you have assigned to that language.

 

If you need any other changes than just language you will need to make these separate products. You can use the Copy button and select "Duplicate Product" to get started, then make the changes that you need to make. This results in an entirely separate product that needs to be maintained separately from the others, no matter how similar they are.

 

Regards

Jim