Adding the Model year for the products

[David Henry]

We are setting a site that sells vehicles, yes we can list manufactures and models but I don't see an easy way to add "Year" so that it's really easy to update.

 

Does anyone know is this is possible through a module?

 

Alternatively...

 

Does anyone know how to custom build this?

 

David

[Paul C]

The easiest way to do this would be to use a "Feature"

 

Year : 1978

 

You can even have pre-defined values to save typing them over again subsequently.

[David Henry]

thanks Paul, that works but is there a way to do this so that the year is listed and sortable similar to Manufacturer and/or price?

[Paul C]

Do you mean listed in the front office? If so, then yes it's possible I guess but would take a little work unless you just use the blocklayered module. That can be used to FILTER on a feature (although not sort I don't think).

 

There's a hook in the CategoryController (ActionProductListOverride) that lets you build your own product listing - that's probably where I'd start on a custom solution.

 

If it's the Back Office then all you would need to do is override AdminProductController to change which fields are presented in the listing (plus probably a callback and/or table join/additional sql to look up the feature value).

Edited May 13, 2013 by Paul C (see edit history)

[David Henry]

thanks Paul, it's for the front end, I'll try the layered block first and if teh client is not happy with that I'll need to go the custom category route.

 

David