Drill down within categories

[Paul Anson]

Hi - long time no see Virtuemart forum

I have a simple question (I think !). I want to customers to be able to drill down through categories to select their product.  The products relate to houses so I want people to first choose their town/city, then the postcode area, then their Street and finally they will see a list of all the house numbers in their Street and it is these house numbers that would lead to the actual product. So, for example; London, SE15, East Street (all these are categories) and then the product is called No. 5 East Street.

Is it possible to do this in VM ? I have tried but the navigation stops at the parent category. Am I missing something ?

[jenkinhill]

Sounds like you need this:  http://breakdesigns.net/extensions/custom-filters

[some]

Paul,
What jenkinhill says could be or not, depend of structure of your categories of vm2.
If the house numbers are within an every Street - example from 1 to 100, yes, it could be.

But, if you have a category with the house numbers out of the tree of city/postal code/Street - then NOT!

VM2 has the great possibilty that the product can belong to more that one category, but there is no filter  - comercial(even cited by jenkinhill, http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension-specific/virtuemart-extensions/virtuemart-products-search)  that can filter that.

The only way, I think is that you put the house numbers like custom field (not category), and then you can filter it with Custom filter.

[Paul Anson]

@ VirtueMart Forum - I do not understand that link to projectfork - is it relevant to my question or just a useful resource ?
@jenkinhill & some, thanks for the replies - I will have a play

[balai]

I don't think that its a good option to use categories for everything.
I find it much better to use categories for a basic/main categorization and various custom fields for each of the product feature.

But, if you have a category with the house numbers out of the tree of city/postal code/Street - then NOT!

If you use Custom Filters, when you select a category you will get the relevant filters. So it can work fine