Posted by kpastore on April 12, 2010 at 6:37pm
In trying to set up a Drupal 6.x Ubercart 2.x online store, I am running into a frustrating issue in that it is nearly impossible to set up a filter, exposed to the user, to filter by a taxonomic term. For example, I have an Electrical Circular Saw category that is located here:
Power Tools
- Electric Power Tools
- Electric Saws
- Electric Circular Saws
To this point, everything works as expected.
Now I want to be able to filter by brand:
- DeWalt
- Bosch
- Skil
Normally with views, you would just add a filter based on taxonomy, expose it, and that would be it. However, with Ubercart, this is not the case.
If anyone has run into this issue and found a workaround, your help would be appreciated.
Thanks!!
Kevin
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Taxonomy should still work as
Taxonomy should still work as it does normally whether displaying ubercart product nodes or any other node. Are you using the catalog module that ships with ubercart? I believe it does some funky things with taxonomy.
I've never used that myself, and views/taxonomy filters, etc all work as expected. So, your best bet might be to just recreate the functionality of the catalog display using views instead of relying on the catalog module (if you're using it at all)
Would need a bit more information about how you've got it set up currently to offer any more assistance
Yes, taxonomy does work if
Yes, taxonomy does work if you don't use the default catalog that comes with Ubercart. Problem is, I have a very large set of items (and product categories) and would like to use the default catalog, as it would save me a lot of time and energy. If there is not another option, I know I can do it with just taxonomy and views, just not looking forward to it.
OK, so I went ahead and created the 'catalog' structure in Views
OK, so I went ahead and created the 'catalog' structure in Views, but now I need to get the parent taxonomy to show up in the header. I have scoured the boards, but as of yet, no clear answer. If anyone has had experience in this, please let me know.
Thanks!
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I ended up just using views
I ended up just using views to build a custom catalog. This was far from ideal, but it works for our purposes.
FYI... if anyone is building a store for a company selling 100s or 1000s of products, you should probably look elsewhere than Ubercart. There are just too many holes currently for large installations without a LOT of coding. Hopefully Drupal Commerce will address some of these issues when it comes out for Drupal 7.
kpatore, You can do that with
kpatore, You can do that with the themename_preprocess_hook function within your template.php theme file.
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Thanks Elvis. As you can see
Thanks Elvis. As you can see above, I was able to get it to work, but with great effort.