Show Products of 2 Categories

[Sascha_RT]

Hey everybody,
I tried to solve that problem by myself, and searched the internet, but i couldn't find a solution. Maybe someone here can help me.

I'm trying to build a shop for car parts.
My products are build for a specific car and beside that belong to a main category, e.g. engine, exhaust, interior, wheels, ....
What i like to do now, get all products that belong to one category: car#1 and another category: exhaust.
So if the customer looks at the list of all products for a specific car, he can select one of the main categories to shorten the list.

I hope that explains my problem and someone can help me!

[GJC Web Design]

How we did it on http://www.suzistore.com.au/ was

car-type 
         - car model
                - exhaust
                - brakes
                   etc

and just add any part to all the categories it fits in  (e.g. some brake parts fit multiple models)

so I guess extend this idea to a 2nd root Parts

parts
      -  exhaust
      - brakes
      - etc

[Sascha_RT]

Thank you for your answer!

In your example I have to create exhaust, engine, etc for every car model. I was hoping to create it only once and put the parts in this category

[jenkinhill]

Maybe custom filters could help?  http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=100913.0

[balai]

I would use categories for a main taxonomy e.g. car type, car model
and custom fields for the others
The role of the custom fields is to give additional properies to the products.

Then with an extension like custom filters you can filter your products

[GJC Web Design]

the reason we used a full category schema is we update stock and create if nesscesary new categories and products hourly from a central database -

it may seem like a lot of work but it is just a once off..

[Sascha_RT]

Thank you for your replies!

I think the only Way to go is
- car1
    - model 1
       - exhaust
       - interior
    - model 2
       - exhaust
       - interior
- car2
    - model 1
       - exhaust
       - interior
    - model 2
       - exhaust
       - interior


It's more work. But it works.
Thanks again!

[GJC Web Design]

Yes - that's what we did on Suzi