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VirtueMart 2 + 3 + 4 => General Questions => Topic started by: Engholm on September 12, 2013, 11:50:54 AM

Title: How to use Manufacturer Categories?
Post by: Engholm on September 12, 2013, 11:50:54 AM
Hi,

is there any purpose of using Manufacturer Categories? There is an option to add categories (http://docs.virtuemart.net/manual/19-manufacturers-menu/53-manufacturer-categories.html). I need to link to different types (categories) of Manufacturers but didn't find any option for usage of categories? Has anyone an idea how to handle this?

cheers,
Engholm
Title: Re: How to use Manufacturer Categories?
Post by: Engholm on September 16, 2013, 14:50:36 PM
seems to be, that manufacturer categories are useless (at the moment / J2.5 / 2.0.22c )
Title: Re: How to use Manufacturer Categories?
Post by: Maxim Pishnyak on September 16, 2013, 15:47:50 PM
They could be useful for backend administration at this time. That's all.
Title: Re: How to use Manufacturer Categories?
Post by: Engholm on September 17, 2013, 15:21:05 PM
The only use is to sort the manufaturers by categories. No filtering options. No batch options. No combining those categories with product categories. No linking to menues. No use at least for me at the moment.
Title: Re: How to use Manufacturer Categories?
Post by: Maxim Pishnyak on September 17, 2013, 17:09:40 PM
Quote from: Engholm on September 17, 2013, 15:21:05 PM
No filtering options. No batch options. No combining those categories with product categories. No linking to menues. No use at least for me at the moment.
You could use custom fields and groups of custom fields.