stuffedhippo Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 A client has asked me if they can associate products to more than one manufacturer? Which they cannot as standard. Is there a module which can help with this. Running PS 1.7 Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daresh Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Maybe use suppliers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuffedhippo Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 I thought about that but cant seem to get them in the layed navigation, which I will need to use. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuffedhippo Posted March 17, 2021 Author Share Posted March 17, 2021 Thanks ndiaga but I need then to be accessible in the facetied search and Suppliers is not available, only brands... In the end I have used the Suppliers as suggested and installed the Advanced Seach module (at a cost). Thanks all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose_ugs Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 People been asking for this feature for about 10 years now... Is there really no add-on that does this? There's a huge number of use cases for this... Is there an easy way to inject a copy of the "brands" functionality and call it something else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daresh Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Please share some use cases of a product having multiple manufacturers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose_ugs Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 12 hours ago, Daresh said: Please share some use cases of a product having multiple manufacturers. Grouped up products? A phone, a battery pack + a super special something like a branded cable? Not to mention that people are using manufacturers/brands for different purposes too (because Prestashop doesnt offer anything better) like "Artists" for example in a shop that offers CDs, Vinyl records, etc. where multiple artists are associated with a single product... These are just 2 off the top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daresh Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 I think all of this can be solved by features / categories, without introducing multi manufacturer feature. Maybe sometimes with a help of some module to display grouped products etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose_ugs Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Can you provide an example? I am currently using manufacturers as Artists in the above use-case and am limited to a single Artist per "album" (which is the product itself in PS). How would you achieve the following using product features - Artist X feat. Artist Y - Album Z? Categories are reserved for music styles "rock, jazz, etc". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daresh Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 You can have a feature "Artist" with multiple values. Should work for filters, of course it will not give you listings, but you can reconsider using categories for this. Have a separate category tree "By artist". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose_ugs Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 I guess the listings forced me to want to use the Manufacturer as "Artist"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daresh Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 So maybe suppliers? A product can have multiple suppliers and you can have a listing there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose_ugs Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Suppliers is exactly what i started exploring while rebuilding using 1.7 ... too bad it seems 1.7 is still missing plenty of 1.6 core functionalities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daresh Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 I think suppliers are present in 1.7 in the same way as in 1.6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose_ugs Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 True, but missing for some reason in the default product template... WTF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daresh Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 What is missing? A supplier is not a very frontend feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose_ugs Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 I see now why it's not present at all... i guess it is in my mind, and an option to hide/show should be there... But that's just me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El plan de Dan Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 2022. Still needing multiple brands addon. There are plenty of reasons why we don't want to use features, categories or supplies. It is so hard? I'm bored of PS each day more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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