10 years ago
Topic
Joomla 3.1.5/Seblod 3.1.5
I'm very experienced with Joomla, but I'm not so experienced with Seblod.
I'm making a site for engineers to download small CAD drawings ("details") of our products. There are hundreds of these details to organize.
The idea is to make a series of cascading select menus to funnel them down to the right parts using the Select Dynamic Cascade plugin. For example:
Select 1: Material (Select Steel) ==>
Select 2: Type of Steel (Select Stainless) ==>
Select 3 Type of Mount for Stainless (Select Horizontal) ==>
Select 4: Metric or SAE (Select Metric) ==>
Select 5: Number of Ports [1-8] (Select 3)
This would bring you to a page with the details for "stainless-steel horizontally-mounted metric 3-port" parts. Ideally I want this to be a Category Blog type layout showing all the relevant details on one page. (Each detail is a unique article in Joomla)
I initially set these up as categories/sub-categories in Joomla, but, according to the example, it appears that the Select Dynamic Cascade plugin wants to filter each item by a separate database table. In other words, it seems like it's intended to make a parent child relationship by tables, not categories.
So here's my question: Can the Select Dynamic Cascade plugin be used with categories/sub-categories or do I need to set my site up differently so the plugin will work correctly?
I hope I made this clear. Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks!!
I'm very experienced with Joomla, but I'm not so experienced with Seblod.
I'm making a site for engineers to download small CAD drawings ("details") of our products. There are hundreds of these details to organize.
The idea is to make a series of cascading select menus to funnel them down to the right parts using the Select Dynamic Cascade plugin. For example:
Select 1: Material (Select Steel) ==>
Select 2: Type of Steel (Select Stainless) ==>
Select 3 Type of Mount for Stainless (Select Horizontal) ==>
Select 4: Metric or SAE (Select Metric) ==>
Select 5: Number of Ports [1-8] (Select 3)
This would bring you to a page with the details for "stainless-steel horizontally-mounted metric 3-port" parts. Ideally I want this to be a Category Blog type layout showing all the relevant details on one page. (Each detail is a unique article in Joomla)
I initially set these up as categories/sub-categories in Joomla, but, according to the example, it appears that the Select Dynamic Cascade plugin wants to filter each item by a separate database table. In other words, it seems like it's intended to make a parent child relationship by tables, not categories.
So here's my question: Can the Select Dynamic Cascade plugin be used with categories/sub-categories or do I need to set my site up differently so the plugin will work correctly?
I hope I made this clear. Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks!!
10 years ago
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Level 1
Hoping someone can help me with figuring out this plugin... Anyone?
10 years ago
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Level 1
Ok, I got the plugin basically figured out thanks to this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uic8R3TF2Q
Now my question is more simple (I hope!) How do I get the selected items in my cascading dropdowns to affect what page Joomla jumps to? In other words, after I go though the cascading selections, it does nothing. I want the final selection to jump to a page in Joomla. Any ideas?
Now my question is more simple (I hope!) How do I get the selected items in my cascading dropdowns to affect what page Joomla jumps to? In other words, after I go though the cascading selections, it does nothing. I want the final selection to jump to a page in Joomla. Any ideas?