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Custom menu using eCommerce Product Attributes

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I hope someone can help :-/

I am currently working on an website with the eCommerce add-on installed and all has been config'ed and products (600+) items have all been added and assigned to to the custom 'Product Attributes' of 'Categories'(9 values) and 'Sub Categories'(40+ values).

I have hard coded an auto-nav menu into the template of the website but instead of displaying the product list I would like it to display the list of 'Sub Categories' that would link to pages that filter the products by that selected attribute.

I have played around with this but have failed, I'm not a hot spark when it comes to programming :'( understand it but can't write it.....yet ;)

It would be a massive help is a wizz has any ideas on how I can do this?

Thanks in advance!
ChrisWatterston
 
JohntheFish replied on at Permalink Reply
JohntheFish
I don't think you need any programming. Just a regular autonav, styled with whatever multi-level menu look template you want. The rest is achieved by putting a bunch of category pages with sub categories beneath them, each sub category with a product list on it with the relevant filtering already applied.

You may also find the mega-menu addon gives you some ideas about navigating a large fan-out of pages. There is a good demo site.
nomaknz replied on at Permalink Reply
This is how I did it, but I didn't want to put anything on the category pages themselves, so at the moment the category pages are just blank pages acting as folders for the sub categories. Why can't C5 have folders in the site-map that I can point an autonav or pagelist at? Is this possible?
sebastienj replied on at Permalink Reply
sebastienj
I'm a bit late on this but if you need help, i've devlopped a theme with this functionality. So i know a way to do it :-)

Let me know but i think is too late :-)