Thread: Display catagories specific to manufacturer

Hello all,

I need to display only the catagories menu mapped specifically to the manufacturer entity currently being viewed. What's the best way to do this? Thanks

The best way to do this would be by following the steps here

I'm not sure if this is the solution to what I'm looking for. What I'm trying to accomplish is when you are on a specific manufacturer/department page, I want the Browse Catagories section on the left to be the only one displayed( I know how to do that) but only show the catagories/products of the selected manufacturer/department. Thanks for the rapid response

Well, template switching is, as far as I can see, the best solution for you...

I already have that set up actually . This particular manufacturer has it's own template. What I'm needing help with is either editing or making my own rev.categories.xml.config to only display catagorical products of the manufacturer in question.

You might be better off writing a custom SQL query to get the data you want and use the rev.categories xml package (make a copy of course) as your template for output.

Gothca, I figured as much. Just for clarification, the sql query (i.e. CDATA[ exec aspdnsf_GetProducts) would go at the top of my new rev.catagories.xml.config in a query tag, correct? Are there any good references for making a little more sense of this xml( somewhat of an xml nub).

Also, thank you all for your help. Very much appreciated.

We really need to do just the opposite. When a category link is clicked and the category product page loads, we need the Manufacturer Menu on the left nav to display just the manufacturers specific to the category products being displayed and not continue to show ALL manufacturers. How can we accomplish this?