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Hi all,

I will have just a few categories on my site but many tags associated with every product. What i want is to show my customers 4 products related to the product they are viewing.

Those 4 products should be in 1x4 grid, below the main product (on a single product page) and choice should be based on the most appropriate tags combination.

Has anybody done this on his/her site?

Which module should I use (AFAIK it's rather Drupal content issue, so i suppose there is a Drupal module)?

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Re: Similar products showed on a product page

The Upsell module for Ubercart allows you to select products (but only on a per-product basis). For your needs I would look at Similar By Term on drupal.org, as that seems more like what you want to do.

I'm actually planning on updating Upsell to work the same way - or better yet, one of two ways: the current (select list) and also the same way the Similar by Term module works - using taxonomy terms and possibly relevance by node content.. but that's a bit of a ways away still. Hopefully the next month or two.

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Re: Re: Similar products showed on a product page

Thanks for a quick repsonse. I will wait for your module, as it is UC-branded one Eye-wink. It's a great thing you are doing here guys.

Can't wait to see it working!

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cloudmine, I am using the

cloudmine,

I am using the Similar By Terms Drupal module on my UC powered site.

I have a lot of products but have only configured but a couple with tags to test the similar by terms module.
Here is an example: http://marlincrawler.com/brake/caliper/v6-ifs-front-brake-caliper

A couple of things regarding this method:

1) It only displays the similar product title, or optionally, title + teaser. I wished it had an image along with it and definitely wished they were arranged in a 4x1 or even 4x2 grid, but of course it's not coded for a shopping cart environment!

2) I don't like how the system uses a backward-logic for setting terms. If you sell a can of vegetables, you have to enter "Opener" for it's search term in order for it to find your similar product called "Can Opener". The reason why I don't like this is if in the future you come out with a new product, say you sell a "Pantry", you can't simply link the Pantry to all of your canned foods because each of them don't know what that product is. You have to go in one-by-one to update every canned foods list of terms to include the word "Pantry". It seems you could just specify what the product is, like, terms could be: "can, vegetables, food" and then when you setup your "Pantry" product, it's terms would be "pantry, food, towels, shirts, socks" and it would automatically find your canned goods based on the "food" term. I hope I am making since here!

I have never heard of the Upsell module for UC (in fact last night I JUST discovered there are "Contributions" here, I never knew about this!!) and will be installing it tonight to check it out.

torgosPizza: X2!!! I would GREATLY appreciate you making this work for us!! Smiling

Regards,
BigMike

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I got heavily distracted with our current site and some other ongoing projects but this is still a feature I'd like to implement (as an option, at the least). Thanks for reminding me about it Smiling

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I believe you already have this working! Your block view option is exactly what we are looking for, I just didn't know about it when I posted above.

Install the Upsell contrib, do NOT even WASTE YOUR TIME with the similar by terms drupal mod, and enable a block view that you can place in your template, and it will only appear on pages you specify such as product pages! AWESOME! PERFECT!

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Problem with Upsell and themed product page

Hi. I have a themed product page (page-type-product.tpl.php). The upsell products appear, with the add to cart, and options, just as they should. But the product does not get added to the cart. I notice that the action on the upsell form is the product page that I'm already on. Is that right? If so, is there a hook that's not firing?