Commerce categories separate from products

[shyest]

I would like to see actual products being separate from the categories. Currently if you have a product that you want under multiple categories you can't add it easlily without adding it per category.

[shyest]

Anyone else looking for this? 

[Meddysong]

17 hours ago, shyest said:

Anyone else looking for this? 

Yes, I am too. I have to pick one category for some of my products which logically belong to several. Often there's one obvious one which dominates (I'd put a dictionary under Dictionaries even though I feel it belongs under Reference and Learning Materials too) but in other situations the decision has to be almost arbitrary.

[chilihead]

I'd like to see you be able to select any categories you want for a product.

Would also like to see an on/off for appearing in the hierarchy, so... Cars - American - Ford, a Ford car would appear in all 3. As you click categories you are narrowing the field.

I think Downloads works like this?

[shyest]

On March 14, 2016 at 0:30 PM, chilihead said:

I'd like to see you be able to select any categories you want for a product.

Would also like to see an on/off for appearing in the hierarchy, so... Cars - American - Ford, a Ford car would appear in all 3. As you click categories you are narrowing the field.

I think Downloads works like this?

Haven't looked into Downloads but if it does have this why wouldn't similar products have the same type of functions? 

[Joel R]

2 hours ago, shyest said:

Haven't looked into Downloads but if it does have this why wouldn't similar products have the same type of functions? 

IP.Downloads does not work like this.  An item can only appear in one category, it cannot be "cross-reference" to other categories.  

Also, IPS has never offered "equivalence" of features across their apps.  

[chilihead]

Correct, appears downloads does not work like that either, the tree structure of categories with numbers fooled me.