Which category is product ordered from?

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Hi

How is it possible to tell which category a linked product is ordered from?

If there is no existing way is it a case of setting up a session variable for the cpath and then recording that?

Cheers

John

[Kim]

A linked product only has one inventory. Is there a particular reason you need that information?

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Thanks for your reply,

The reason for this is basically to save our customers and our time and make navigating easier - we have drop downs and a good search but this would make it even easier for customers to re-visit the category from which they initially ordered.

I would like to record which category/categories the product was firstly added to basket from (not the master category id) presumably as a session variable and then ordered from, to display in a separate side box after the order is placed to allow the customer to easily navigate to that category next time (obviously by clicking on the category name in the side box).

We sell printer cartridges which as I am sure you can appreciate fit in a lot of the same printers, there are lists of similar named ones which can be a bit confusing.

Often they are 3 categories deep and some customers would really appreciate this little add on - especially the ones with a poor memory like me - it would stop statements when ordering such as "Oh, I don't know which printer I have - I'll have to just go and check" etc!

I would like if possible to know how to get this information into a session variable such as $_SESSION['customers_cpath']) if you feel that is the way to go?

And how to store multiple categories with that method?

I will be able to do the rest am just stuck on those parts.


Kind Regards

John

[n8pbm]

I would like to know what catagory a linked product is from. I sell canvas for folding trailers. One canvas fits on many different models and years. It would be great to know what model and year the customer has for our records. Currently we have to ask what is the year and model if we want to know. It sounds strange to the customer when they selected the year and model from the catagories.