Dynamic Product Lists

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Ricardo Gomez

• October 03, 2018 21:15

To have the ability to create product lists based on filters, therefore they are dynamic and always up to-date in real-time

For example we have a list for specific manufacturers, but we are constantly adding and removing products, if the list can have an option for a drop-down menu where we can select any available Product Field, then we could select "Manufacturer" then enter the manufacturer's name

The list will always be up-to-date because it will populate it based on the selected filter.

Other uses can be Product Status (to display only items in stock for example), for price under XXX amount, warehouse, etc etc. These lists can be very powerful

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  AmeriCommerce Developer

  • March 28, 2019 13:50

  Hi Ricardo,

  We have added more display types to the product display widget that should be useful for you:

  • Manufacturer
  • Attribute
  • Product Status
  • eProducts
  • Subscription Products

  While we aren't planning on adding every product field to the product display widget, we feel that these new display types should cover most use cases. These are available in version 2019.1.1527.1 or higher. Thanks for the suggestion!
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  Brian Gluck

  • October 10, 2018 23:33

  Not sure if this would work for you, but we use attributes to achieve this.

  We have an attribute for brand (manufacturer), price range, stock status etc.

   

  I can direct people to a landing page made up of various attribute combinations:

  here is a link to a page with All items from Brand "Da-lite" with price range "Under $200" and status of "Leaves Warehouse in 3-5 Days"

  https://www.projectorscreen.com/projector-screens?Attribs=668+2907+2933

   

  It wont work to power various widgets, but easy to direct people to this specific url and treat as landing page

   

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  Ricardo Gomez

  • October 11, 2018 16:49

  that is a good idea that we are thinking in implementing and we will add it as a link, unfortunately as you mentioned it does not work for the widgets, just as a link to filter results

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  Brian Gluck

  • October 11, 2018 19:44

  Alternatively you can manage product lists via import and some custom development. I currently have a middleware (developed by  http://toupee.io/ ) that stores a copy of my product database and lets me create all sorts of custom exports into AC to control stock status, pricing, etc.

  You could use something like that to populate product lists via import/API based on whatever criteria you want in order to populate the widgets among countless other things.

  Reach out to them and see if they can help you; the owner, Pier is a stand-up dude and has been doing custom dev for me for a loooong time.

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  Ricardo Gomez

  • October 12, 2018 19:59

  Thank you for the suggestion. Currently we do work with products lists and automatic imports, but as you mentioned they need to be imported every time something changes, but that requires us to maintain 2 (or probably more lists) at a time.

  The suggestion for this feature it's so the lists are updated automatically based on the information of the product so any update we do to the products is automatically updated to the lists, this way we don't have to maintain the lists with uploads.

  The dynamic population of lists makes everything work flawlessly, 1 upload, update all the lists.

   

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  Brian Gluck

  • September 17, 2019 18:05

  I'd love to see product lists be dynamically populated by the specification of multiple attributes :

   

  Product list A = all items with attribute ids, 123 AND 456

  Product List B = all items with attribute ids 123 OR 456

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