Thanks in advance for input on this post!
I'm about to start a test population using Easy Populate but need to figure out how to achieve the proper menu structure first. I want to have 2 ways to browse to a single product. The 1st will be the TYPE of item and 2nd will start with the BRAND (manufacturer) name. (I do know that a drop down for manufacture is automatically generated but I want sub-menus as well.)
For example, let's say I'm selling hats and scarfs from 2 different manufactures(say "Apparel World" and "Clothes Warehouse"). And menu tree would look like this:
HATS
--winter (winter hats displayed from both brands)
--beach
SCARFS
--winter
--fashionable
BRANDS
--Apparel World
- --Hats
----- --winter (winter hats displayed from Apparel World only)
----- --beach
- --Scarfs
----- --winter
----- --fashionable
--Clothes Warehouse
- --Hats
----- --winter
----- --beach
- --Scarfs
----- --winter
----- --fashionable
My uncertainty on how to proceed is whether or not I should LINK or COPY product to/into the other sub-catagories. LINKing seems to be the cleanest way (having only 1 instance of the product). And when using Easy Populate, the documentation I've found seems to indicate that I can have 2 entries on my tab-delimited text file, each with a different category structure. But I can't deduce if that COPIES the product entry or just LINKS the second entry to the first.
Any ideas on how I should go about setting this up?
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