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Okay - you can now add a link in your menu structure to 'view by brand' or similar that points to viewbrands.asp (in v3).

This will show a page to enable you to select the various brands and see the products associated with it.

It uses an image and text description.   If you don't want an image, create a tiny blank image in your background colour and it will appear as though there isn't any image.

cheers
Mark

Ok; I've setup brands and assigned products to them. I'm now browsing by categories and subcategories but don't see any option available to show only products of a certain brand. Is there a setting I need to enable for this?

I see the shop by brand link on the side; this is working fine.

Thanks!

Thanks again, Mark, for the quick reply.

ed

Hi there

I'm also interested in this "brand" feature. We'll be selling many cards in many different categories. Let me run an idea by you to see if you think it will work.

A category structure, without using the brand feature would look something like this:

Greeting Cards
        Everyday Cards
              Birthdays
                  Cats
                  Dogs
                  Etc.
               Anniversary
                  Cats
                  Dogs
                  Etc.
              Etc.

As mentioned in the post above, having multiple subcategories that are the same is not the most elegant solution. So here's what I'm thinking as an alternative:

Greeting Cards
        Everyday Cards
              Birthdays
              Anniversary
              Thanks
              Etc.

Then create "brands" (renamed to "themes" or something like that) for:
       Cats
       Dogs
       Animals
       Etc.

Will that work? Will customers be able to search by category and brand/theme? Can they search at the same time. Again, there's a great example of this functionality over at http://www.leanintree.com/ They have two drop down boxes in their search form, one for category and another for theme.

Thanks for you feedback.

ed

I had a further think on this.

In addition to categories in v3 you also can set up brands as well.  This might be a useful thing to do (of course in reality, it doesn't have to be just a brand, it could be anything).

By modifying the language in languages.asp (in the includes folder) you can redefine the terminology used in your store - so brands could become something else.

This might prove useful to a multi-category / product-type store such as yours,

cheers

mark