How to make an addition drop down list on catergory page?

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How to make an addition drop down list on catergory page?

Post by AlexG » Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:23 am

I would like to add an addition drop down list with sort by options (with size option( x, xx, xxl and all other from products Variants from DB for SELECTED category)) on the category page, And I need thAt paging and default sorting (by price , by name and etc) working correctly with a new list!

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Re: How to make an addition drop down list on catergory page?

Post by mazhar » Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:24 am

You may need to write your custom code that loads the variants and sort them by size values.ProductDataSource.NarrowSearch doesn't expose any thing that took care of this extra sort parameter.

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Re: How to make an addition drop down list on catergory page?

Post by AlexG » Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:54 am

mazhar wrote:You may need to write your custom code that loads the variants and sort them by size values.ProductDataSource.NarrowSearch doesn't expose any thing that took care of this extra sort parameter.
If I get all variants from all products , the site will be slowly!
Because the variant (product proporties) is in the other table!
Is that correct?

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Re: How to make an addition drop down list on catergory page?

Post by mazhar » Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:37 am

If I get all variants from all products , the site will be slowly!
Because the variant (product proporties) is in the other table!
Is that correct?
It may. You can try to write your custom queries to accomplish this job by providing your custom category display page..

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