By mxa055 on

Hello,

I just migrated to drupal from using another popular cms. I am having a hard time understanding the concept behind building lists of things.
What I want to achieve is this.

Have a product category page that will list 6-7 product category names along with a category picture.
After I click on a product category I want to go a product subcategory similar to main product category but obviously with different categories.
Finally after choosing a subcategory I want to display a page where a page with 4-5 products is displayed, not as a list that links to a product subpage but a standalone product listing page featuring the following format:

Product Image __ Product Name pdf_download

Product Description
Product Specifications
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Product Image __ Product Name pdf_download

Product Description
Product Specifications
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Product Image __ Product Name pdf_download

Product Description
Product Specifications
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My question is this... first how should I be about creating such a page using views, as well as a product category page. Secondly how can I specify which categories exist and which subcategories and which products belong and should be listed there?
I though of taxonomy but I got really confused. I noticed that that you can use on Views are predefined, so I guess I need a mechanism to create fields that will query the product list that I have to make (taxonomy?database?) or sth like that.

I understand that this is probably a question that has been asked before, but unfortunately I can't find any material that doesn't suggest using ubercart. The thing is that my site is not an eshop, just a page that lists some of my products as well as providing manuals,specifications etc.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

You should be able to do this with views. Add arguments for the categories and select one of the summary options as the action to take when an argument is not provided. That will give you the summary page of clickable categories that link through to the next category page until you arrive at the actual listing which will be the view.

mxa055’s picture

mxa055 commented

Thanks a lot for the help

Only the last page with the product listing will be a view? or all of the described pages?

I managed to use CCK to create each product page but I cannot figure out how to specify in views what products of the created ones will be shown. Also is the views going to be fields or nodes content type? I tried using nodes but only the product title appeared (tried to make the product listing). When changed the type to fields and specified the product fields I had created in CCK it displayed an error about not being able to sql select the fields. Also what should categories be created as (taxonomy, CCK, node) ?