it seems like alot of ecommerce sites these days are providing products filters to search for items. For example you can search items by WIDTH,HEIGHT,TV SIZE, Furniture Type etc.
now if it was a simple website with just a few searchable filters then its easy to do, but I am managing a website which sells furniture,appliance & electronics and every category has alot of sub categories as well. for example:
Appliance:
Laundry
Searchable Attributes (Washer,Dryer,Washer Type..Microwave,Width, Height)
Electronics
Tv(Tv Size, Width)
Games (ps3, Genre,Sale Date)
I am sure you get the idea. an ecomerece sites offers basic categoies and then every category could have sub categories OR Searable filters to drill down your search.
what would be the best way to do this using MS SQL Server & Asp.net. I am interested in creating a optimized searchable schema in SQL.
any Hints, Suggestions will be welcome.
Thanks
You can use the Entity-Attribute-Value model.
The simple concept is that instead of having a column for each of your model's attributes (such a genre, sale date, etc for a ps3 game), youll have another table, named Attributes, where the attributes and their types will be listed, and a third table, where your main model instances (ps3 game) will be linked with attributes via 3 columns:
Model Id (the id of the ps3 game)
Attribute Id
Attribute Value
This concept might be harder to manage, and require more complicated queries, but it will alow addition of new products / categorites in the easiest way.
Of course, with this model, if few products share a common attribute (sugh as pc game and ps3 game sharing a genre), you'll have the attribute defined only once, and both model will be linked to it, allowing a common search query on different products.
Too much for a single question. Look for a book on database design. For a drill down you can have a table with as many PK columns as drill downs. But when it comes to details you will need separate tables as TV does not have the same details as a stereo.
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I want to create multiple online shops for selling merchandise products for companies. The products are basically identical but should be personalized in dependence of the company I am building the shop for. Because I do not want to build a new shop every time a new company joins the program I am looking for something like that:
www.myshop.com : One shop with the underlying product database and checkout system - not showing any products, just as a parent structure
www.company1.myshop.com : A slightly personalized shop where only a selection of the product catalogue is available
www.company2.myshop.com : A slightly personalized shop where a different selection of the product catalogue is available
Do you get it?
Does anybody know a tool for that?
Thanks in advance!
I already looked into WooCommerce, Shopify and even WiX. As far as I understood what I am looking for is not supported.
Since your example is based off of subdomains, you can choose to assign a Shopify store to each subdomain. Each store feeds from your inventory and accounting, giving your customers the illusion of a custom experience. Or you can just simplify your life, have one store, and assign your customers to view collections specific to them. That is the smart move. You may not like that, but it would work a peach for you. You just tag customers to see their specific collections, of products specific to those collections. Simple.
I can also think of a dozen other ways to pull this off with Shopify, but that is me, not you. For an opinion question like this, SO is not the right place to ask these kinds of questions, but I answered anyway. Your mileage may vary of course.
I don't even know if "tagging pages" is what I mean.
Essentially, I have a large education website with many types of pages. Specifically, I want to tag our program pages by faculty, level, etc. For example, the Biology program page would be tagged with Science (as its faculty), and Undergraduate (as its level). It's possible that a program could belong to multiple faculties and/or levels (Psychology, for instance, is both a Science program and an Arts program). There is nothing in the URL to signify faculty or level. The website is built in Drupal, in case you know of any modules that could facilitate this.
I want to understand how different faculties/levels/etc perform. I will be building reports in Google Data Studio.
Any guidance would be appreciated!
What you are looking for is called 'content grouping'. If you haven't information in the URL you can define some rules when the page loads and pass the information to Analytics with the pageviews.
You can find more information here:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2853423?hl=en
Then you can get these information from Data Studio.
Because of your multi-value needs, nothing in GA is going to satisfy your requirements out of the box. You will have to do some post-processing, and I am not familiar enough with Data Studio to know where its limits are in that regard.
As the previous poster suggested, Content Grouping is the standard way to create custom aggregations of pages. You can have multiple content groupings, such as Faculty and Level, but a page can be in only one group per grouping (not the clearest terminology but it appears to be what Google uses).
A different option is Custom Dimensions. There are two options here. One is to create custom dimensions for Level and Faculty. Each page can still have only one value per dimension, but you could send a comma-delimited string when a department is in multiple faculties (for instance) and then pull it apart again in a spreadsheet.
The second option is to create a custom dimension for Department directly, and associate each department to the appropriate one or more faculties and levels in your reporting.
How you set the custom dimensions or content grouping will depend on your implementation of GA. If you are using the Google Analytics Drupal module, it says it supports setting custom dimensions as a feature. If you are using Google Tag Manager you can set the dimension value in your tags directly, though of course it will need to decide what value to set on based on either totally enumerated rules you write or something it can read out of the page. Here is some Tag Manager documentation: Content Grouping via GTM; Custom Dimensions via GTM.
If the department is present in the page in some consistently marked-up way you can grab it; if not the Metatag module or one of its schema.org extensions might be able to provide you a spot to set a value for GTM to retrieve.
I have a company content type being used on a website-in-progress. Companies consist of a company name, name sorting mechanism, logo image and URL. I have a requirement to show companies taking part in different use cases in various parts of the website.
Challenge:
In the past I used a company content type for a "corporate members" list on a page, also assigning a "member level" field. But then, companies started being listed as event sponsors with specifics for what they were sponsoring, also with different membership levels in a "corporate giving club". It was messy while added/included in the old company content type. It caused confusion for content editors and developers.
Possible Solution:
In other content types, create compound fields such as "Sponsors", "Corporate members", "Donors", select lists with company entities, or sponsorship detail text areas with company entities. That may keep companies flexible and not messy (keeping company just a company).
Progress:
I found the Double field module, splitting core fields up into two separate parts. This is almost what I'm looking for, providing compound field sets. However, it won't allow references to be selected and is out of the scope of this project per this issue. I'm finding a lot of Drupal 7 examples, but not much Drupal 8 yet.
I'm starting to dig into the examples for developers module for inspiration and will post a solution unless you beat me to it. I'm also open to alternative ideas.
What is the best way to proceed? Specific code examples are not required. I would accept clues that lead me to a final working solution.
The solution turned out to be simpler than creating a custom module.
The Field Collection module allowed for the simple creation of compound fields containing any number and most (if not all) field types, including reference fields. It's also available as a Drupal 8 module (alpha at the time of writing, seems to work fine).
I often deliver wordpress pages because it's easy to setup. When I don't, it's often because the customer need custom data. For example a car dealer would want a data type for car models, car windows and car doors - all with different attributes. These should be editable in the Wordpress admin and also somewhat easy to print out with a foreach loop to the frontend.
I found the plugin Custom Database Tables (https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-database-tables/) but I would also need relationships between the different tables. If I configure five different car doors, I would want them listed as a select box when I edit a car for example. It doesn't seem to support that?
Is there any alternatives from creating my own plugin for this? Seems like such an ordinary case for non blogs?
Thanks.
Wondered if someone can shed some light on OG groups in Drupal.
I know you can restrict what types of NODES that can be created within groups, but what if yuo have two types of groups. Can you restrict the creation of a certain type of node to only one group ?
Example:
I allow users to create groups called Sports
I allow uses to create groups called Movies
I have two types of nodes: Food & Shoes
Can I set that the Food node, can only be created inside the movie group
And set that the Shoes node can only be created inside the Sports group ?
thanks :)
Core behavior of OG is that every Content type defines it's own relationship to OG. They might be barred from a group relationship, a group node, or a group post. There is nothing in that base configuration to specify the relationship between a content type and each group type individually.
However, there are a few tricks you could put in place to try to facilitate something.
Cheap Trick
For example, if you hide the navigation to create a node of a given content type, you've cut off the obvious approach.
OG User Roles
Probably the most conventional trick I can think of would be to carve up the different content types on a permissions level. I'm not entirely positive this will work, so it will bear some experimentation.
Create a Sports Writer role, limit the ability to create and edit Basketball nodes to it.
Use OG User Role to automatically promote members of the Sports group types into the Sports Writer role.
Cutting Edge Shenanigans
You can also use the Spaces module to toggle content type availability by Feature. In fact, the implementation of spaces_menu_alter() might show you how you could programmatically build out the functionality you are looking for. Sounds like it would be useful.
When you create a Shoe/Food node, there is a dropdown/select list to choose the group it gets added to, right?
It should be possible to write a module that implemented hook_form_alter to intercept the node form for the food and shoes node and do a lookup based on the node type to filter the groups made available to it.
edit This module seems to exist, it may do what you require: http://drupal.org/project/og_content_type_admin