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Title: manufacturer Products without list of categories?
Post by: mc499 on August 15, 2012, 19:02:41 PM
when I open manufacturer and then click on " View all manufacturer Products" I see all products under categories.
how can I see only manufacturer Products without categories?

Title: Re: manufacturer Products without list of categories?
Post by: markito on August 19, 2012, 14:02:08 PM
i search also a solution to display manufacturer Products without list of categories above...

Title: Re: manufacturer Products without list of categories?
Post by: bytelord on August 20, 2012, 05:38:11 AM
Hello,

If you use manufacturer page (by creating a menu assign to manufacturers), or by using the module Module: VirtueMart Manufacturers [mod_virtuemart_manufacturer], or by clicking in the product page or wherever there is a manufacturer link, you can click show all manufacturer products and receive them all in "category" style without categories.

What you can easily is to create some menu items that points to each specific manufacturer OR directly to manufacturers products view. From that page you can select easily the manufacturers from your dp list like in categories, but without categories.

PS: You understand when you using category view it is obvious that categories will be shown and applied.
Title: Re: manufacturer Products without list of categories?
Post by: balai on August 20, 2012, 10:43:40 AM
You can use the free version of custom filters for that.
The manufacturers filter contains the "Any Manufacturer" which returns all products without the categories list.

http://breakdesigns.net/extensions/custom-filters
Title: Re: manufacturer Products without list of categories?
Post by: bytelord on August 20, 2012, 13:30:28 PM
+1 balai
Title: Re: manufacturer Products without list of categories?
Post by: markito on August 20, 2012, 18:45:30 PM
balai, thank you!

it looks really great and I will get the PRO Version to support your work.

nearly perfect, but 2 things:

The URL from a manufacturer is acually:
www.yourshopurl.com/component/customfilters/no-category/manufacturerexample?Itemid=104

coud it bee like:
www.yourshopurl.com/manufacturerexample or better:
www.yourshopurl.com/manufacturerexample.html

second:
above the list of products of one manufacturer, there is no title and no description of manufacturer.
could it be possible these things there place?
Title: Re: manufacturer Products without list of categories?
Post by: balai on August 20, 2012, 19:33:57 PM
QuoteThe URL from a manufacturer is acually:
www.yourshopurl.com/component/customfilters/no-category/manufacturerexample?Itemid=104

Unfortunatelly this is the way that joomla builds the sef URLs. It uses the component's name in the URL.

Quotesecond:
above the list of products of one manufacturer, there is no title and no description of manufacturer.
could it be possible these things there place?

Because it is a filtering extension and other criteria can be used too (categories, prices , custom fields), displaying the selected criteria at the top can become incomprehensive for the users. We will think of that in case the user selects only 1 criteria.