Products Module: Hierarchy and Categories [solved]

[David_Geoffrey]

Hi All

This might be a really dumb question, but I have just installed the Products module and I am trying to work out what the Hierarchy functionality actually is used for.

Does anyone have a working site with this set up so I can see the way it works?

To give some background - I am trying to set up a school library site and I was going to add books as a products so we would not have to enter the same information over and over again, but call the products on different pages. Some books might be in more than one category which I can see how that works fine

Any help gratefully recieved

Cheers

[calguy1000]

Think of the hierarchy as akin to the 'Dewey Decimal System' for books....

[David_Geoffrey]

Hi Calguy

That makes a lot of sense - thanks for using a relevent example.

So I can use the hierarchy for a fixed classification e.g. a particular book on a T-Rex can only be in hierarchy "Natural History > Dinosaurs"; but could be in multiple categories e.g. "Books for Boys", "Books for 8 year olds", "Books with Good Pictures"

Cheers
DG

[calguy1000]

Exactly.