My website trades raw materials & chemicals. I will have many suppliers listing their products on my website. Many of these suppliers will offer identically named products, with only the product attributes differentiating them.
My questions: How can I imitate a product using cms static blocks? How can I assign bulk static blocks to certain categories? Ensure these static blocks contain a hyperlink which redirect to product category.
For example: A well known chemical compound, such as "Sodium Chloride" may have 10 separate listings from different suppliers. These identical products will be assigned to its own category. Here is the category url for sodium chloride: [login to view URL]
If you viewed the above url, you will see that any "sodium chloride" listings have been assigned to the "sodium chloride" category.
Why do I want to do this?
Once I start listing thousands of products, I don't want every single product to be displayed within categories such as: [login to view URL]
Obviously, a customer will be browsing for a specific chemical compound and therefore, displaying all products (many of which will be identical), will become very cluttered.
So instead, I want to display a static block for each unique product, which will represent all identical products with that name. User should then be able to click on the block which will redirect user to the actual product category. These static blocks will be displayed within specific categories.
In summary, I need an easy method to create these blocks programmatically. I don't want to be creating 3000 individual cms blocks.
Bit of a tricky situation.
If you think you have what it will take to complete this project, please bid. Any questions are welcome.
Thanks, Jason
Hey Jason
We can provide you the code for creating stating block pro-grammatically. Please refer to your PM. We have done the similar work in past.
Thanks