Hi everyone. I have a client that's requesting a way to group products together.
This is the scenario:
They have about 15 main products (control units for electricity). There are about 50 accessory products that work together with these main products. Some of the accessories fit to more than one of the main products, while others only fit one of the main products. The accessories are organised in different categories in the catalog.

What they want is that when someone view a main product, they want to list all accessories that match the main product they are currently viewing. This is so that people can easily find out which accessories fit the different main products.

The way I see it, übercart has two ways of doing this now:

1) Use the product kit module. Make kits, and make sure that the kits are not visible. I can use the kits together with some custom "hacking" code to be able to list accessories based on the kit of the main product.

2) Use categories. That is, just list up the other products in the same category as the product one is currently viewing. This would not work in this case, since the accessories are spread in different categories (one accessory may fit several main products).

None of these are very good solutions in my opinion. Are there any other ways to do this? If not, i'll start looking at creating a module for this, but how should that module work? Any ideas?

I could probably create another taxonomy and use that in paralell with the catalog taxonomy to define the "grouped products" that way. But something about that doesn't sound right in my ears.

Any ideas?

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Thomas Kulvik
Ny Media AS
www.nymedia.no