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If I understand correnctly, you might want to look at adding arguments to your view, and feeding it the category you want to display?

See http://drupal.org/node/54455

Am I the only one to want to customize the standard products list table???

I'm right there with you. I need to add several columns to my category product list (some of which are custom CCK fields I have added to the Product content type) in order to get the look my client needs. I'm building a parts book for cars, so need the following columns in the category listing (again, some are custom fields):

• Replacement Part No (mapped to "title", standard UC column)
• OEM Part No (CCK text field)
• Description (mapped to "body")
• Qty Required (CCK integer field)
• Unit price (standard UC column)
• Add to Cart (standard UC column)

I'm really surprised there is no way to toggle product fields for display on the catalog pages as well as the product pages. In fact, at admin/store/settings/products/edit/fields there is only a subset of fields available. In the uc_product_table() function only a handful of fields are even options (image, name, list_price, sell_price, uc_cart):

Are views the way to go, or is there a module out there that allows this kind of mapping to be done, overriding the product page and category product lists? If no module exists, any idea if this would even be possible before I start going down that road? I've found two different set of TAPIr hooks documented so far, so don't even know which (if any of them) are accessible from a third-part module...

-R

Hi all,
i had the same problem, i would like to use taxonomy terms like navigation in catalog module untouched, but i needed changing the presentation of products - i mean add some fields to generated table, but not only fields from uc_products table (for example i would like to add a teaser from node etc.).
It was first target and here is my solution:
All is about View module... After installation of Catalog module there is in Views a new view named "uc_products" with two standard "presets": Defaults and Page.
I found these two ways to achieve my first goal:

1. You can configure "Page preset" - add new fields, disabling or deleting other fields etc., but you have to set the Arguments!!! In "Page preset" i've set "Taxonomy: Term ID" and detail i've kept unchanged. And final trick is to change Path for this view to the path which catalog use. If you didn't do any changes in "Automated alias settings" (admin/build/path/pathauto), default path is: catalog. Now you have your own presentation of product. But if one catalog term has a children - other catalog terms, the links to these children aren't shown in content space, because functions in catalog module aren't fired and all content is generated by View. It's not that, what i exactly need. It's time to the second way...
2. This way is similar to the first one, but you should configure "Default preset" and in Arguments you have to set "Node: Nid" and in its detail check the option "Allow multiple terms per argument." Why "Node: Nid" and not "Taxonomy: Term ID". Because in my first way the argument comes from URL: for example in "www.mypage.com/catalog/5" the number 5 is Term ID of my currently clicked term (Catalog in block in left-sidebar). But in my second way i use a function "theme_uc_catalog_products" from file "uc_catalog.module". It's theme function, so hooking is very easy. Copy this function to your theme file template.php and rename it by your theme's name - if your theme's name is "dream", rename this function to "dream_uc_catalog_products" and make some changes:
   
   function dream_uc_catalog_products($products) {
  if (!$products) {
    $output .= '<div class="no-products">'. t('No products are available in this category.') .'</div>';
    return $output;
  }
  else {
    if (variable_get('uc_catalog_grid_display', FALSE)) {
      return theme('uc_catalog_product_grid', $products);
    }
    else {
      //$table = tapir_get_table('uc_product_table', $products);
      //return drupal_render($table);
foreach ($products as $key => $product_id) {
if ((count($products) - 1) == $key) {
$args .= $product_id;
} else {
$args .= $product_id . '+';
}
}
return views_embed_view('uc_products', 'default', $args);
    }
  }

   Note i've disabled functions "tapir_get_table" and "drupal_render"! I've added a cycle, where argument $products (array with Node Nid's of products associated with currently clicked term) is transformed to string $args, because last used function "views_embed_view('uc_products', 'default', $args)" doesn't take as argument an array in this case - note detail of argument "Node: Nid" in Views->Default, where i've checked "Allow multiple terms per argument.". There is a help text: "If selected, users can enter multiple arguments in the form of 1+2+3 or 1,2,3.". I've read, that format "1+2+3" means logical "OR" and format "1,2,3" means logical "AND". That's why i've used sign "+" in construction of string $args.

OK, that's my first goal - solved. Can somebody test it?
PS: There in "dream_uc_catalog_products($products)" is second option for generating products as a grid. I think, you can use similar method to achieve a "dreamed" results...

My second goal was to achieve this:
Imagine you have catalog of terms like this:

• A
  • aa
  • ab
  • ...
• B
  • ba
  • bb
    • bba
    • ...
  • ...
• ...

Root terms are "A", "B" etc. Second level terms (children of root terms) are "aa", "ab", "ba", ...
If my root term A hasn't any product, but it's children (in 2nd, 3th and so forth level) have some products, why when i click on term A, i'll see only links to the children? I would like to see all products from A to the deep of its tree and the links too, of course. In other words, children and its children are something like filters. If i'll click on deeper and deeper catalog term, i'd receive smaller and smaller collection of products.
If somebody would like to know, how to i've solved it, add a comment and than i'll write new article.
PS: I'm sorry for my english, it's not my native language...