The catalogue settings page (admin/store/settings/catalog/edit) lets you choose which taxonomy vocabulary you wish to use as a catalogue.
Is it possible to select more than one vocabulary to display as a catalogue display?
The reason I ask is that I have used the taxonomy categories to organize the products on my site.
As is standard in Drupal, the vocabulary terms appear on the nodes that they are applied to and the end user can click on these terms to see all the nodes that belong to that term.
For example, T-Shirts belong to the T-Shirt vocabulary term which is part of the clothing category.
When the user views a T-Shirt product, they can click on the T-Shirt vocabulary term link and then see all the T-Shirts on the site.
At the moment, the T-Shirt page displays full node views of all the T-Shirts, which is difficult to navigate.
It would be much better if they could be displayed as a catalogue view. I cannot assign the clothing category vocabulary as a catalogue view (in admin/store/settings/catalog/edit) , as I am already using the catalogue view to display all my products by Brand.
I know I could create a custom view with the Grid Bonus module to reproduce a catalogue-like view. However, the end user wouldn't be able to access this view when they click on the T-Shirt vocabulary term link.
Hmm... actually, I just had some unexpected success yesterday overriding the normal taxonomy lists with a View... using the arguments feature of Views, you can filter products based on a term ID found in the URL. I kind of lucked out, as I wasn't exactly sure how it would work... but it ended up being exactly what I needed.
The example, though it won't make a whole lotta sense w/o admin access, is http://supportministry.com/reading-lists. I have a single argument for the term ID, and I make sure that I put that into the page URL setting for the View. It automatically takes care of the filtering, and then I sort the nodes listed based on another field I setup for that site owner on his reading list nodes.