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Hi,

I have a bunch of different categories for my products. It seems like the canonical way to set that up is to put them all in the Catalog category as sub-categories. E.g.:

Catalog
- Style
- Gothic
- Baroque
- Roccoco
- Neo-Classic
- Region
- Italian
- French
- English
- Asian
- etc.

That creates a nice, browsable page at /cart. But it also creates a category-assignment form in the product editing page that's really hard to use. Is there a solution to this problem? I'm leaning toward promoting the sub-categories to their own taxonomies, but it seems like then I'll have to create my own cart views, etc. Is there something out there to easily modify the way the category selection is presented on the product admin page? Are there other places where having everything in one big list is going to be inconvenient? Am I the only one bothered by this?

TIA

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Re: taxonomy usability on admin pages

I went with the multiple vocabularies solution. It's basically working, except that I have to roll all my own views. (I was probably going to have to do that anyway, though.) It would be nice if it were possible to specify more than one vocab for uc, though, because now I have to either artificially create a catch-all vocab or live with the interface telling me that I have orphans....

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Re: Re: taxonomy usability on admin pages

I'd be most most most interested in your solution, sprugman!

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It's pretty straight forward. Basically I made a separate vocab/set of terms for each category that I wanted -- style, shape, region, era, etc, and set each of them to apply to products. Then using the taxonomy/term view you can browse them. I had to do some custom theming, coding and modify the view to get everything the way I wanted, but as I recall, the basics were decent. I'm just picky. As I said above, the only real problem with it is that now I don't have a vocab that has all of the products in it, so the products admin page tells me that I have orphaned products.