Profile: hemjesti

http://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/21974/product-search-category-and-then-sub-category-in-dropdown-and-then-sub-subcategory-in-dropdown.aspx

interesting conversation here - and in looking at their site, they seemed to have come up with a solution.....

Hey there - thanks for the response! appreciate it.

so, since i won't need to specify 'color' or 'size' on 99% of my products, that's going to complicate things i guess.

what about this scenario - we specialize in jeeps - we also work with gmc, ford, toyota, dodge - what about this - couldn't i create a Product Attribute (Catalog>Attributes>Product Attributes) called something like, Ford and go into the product>specifications attribute and select 'Ford', allow filtering, and not show on product page?

why is the Custom Value unfilterable? is there a programmatic way around this?

Why would there be an option to use the Ajax Filters, to search or select manufacturer when there is already an option to have an item-block/box that lists the manufacturers? I refuse to believe that there is no need/way/solution for such a feature as a make/model/year search tool.

i've never used attributes on the site with nopCom before and unless you're dealing with sizes or colors i don't see a need to. unless there's a viable way to utilize the attributes for something other than sizes. Seems with all the data we have in our databases that one could make that data searchable via a make/model/year tool.

sorry to go on so long about this - i was just excited thinking i'd found a plugin/tool that would do what i've been trying to do for sometime now. just disappointed.........

so, i downloaded the trial version of the Nop Ajax Filters - i was reading over the "documentation" and found this reference - SpecificationAttributeOptions AllowFilter - is this to imply that one will have to touch each product, add a searchable attribute, and check the box to allow filtering - is the only way to utilize this tool?

i do see that manufactures are listed as searchable, but i was hoping to utilize this as a Make/Model/Year search - if i create a product attribute - that's not the same as a specification attribute. and thus the product attribute isn't going to be searchable?

is there more extensive documentation i can take a look at or perhaps a way to edit/update/modify this information in an excel doc or via a db update or something? this could take decades :-)