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11 years 7 months ago - 11 years 7 months ago #121927 by Lefteris
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I have a question about sorting. I'd like to have the option of sorting by product characteristics such as the color "blue". If I have a product that includes options in blue, red, green and black and I tag that product with each of these individual colors as tags but the primary image on the product page is set as the red option, is it possible when you perform a tag sort for "blue" products to show only the blue versions of the product even though you've designated the red image as the primary image?

Does anyone have an idea of how that is done? It's hurting my head to think of how you could have a product with multiple colors and be able to sort for one specific color on that page.

It seems to me that in K2, you have image and image gallery and whatever image you upload on the image tab is the one that will show in your sort results irregardless of what tags are associated with it.

There are a many sites that do this but I'm just not sure how they're doing it. nike.com and adidas.com both do it for example.

Anyone have any ideas?

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11 years 7 months ago #121928 by Yiota
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When your sorting is based on the tag name then it doesn't matter if your image is red. The tag list will bring all items that have the common tag you have clicked on.

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11 years 7 months ago - 11 years 7 months ago #121929 by Lefteris
Replied by Lefteris on topic Re: Sort by product characteristic
I'm not sure I explained my question very well. If I want to include an option to search/sort option for products that are blue and for a given product there are options in blue, red and green. I happened to choose the red option as the main image on the image tab with the blue and the green as supplemental images in the image gallery tab. Because that product comes in red, blue and green, I assign tags with those color names.

Here's where I can't figure out what other sites are doing... If I perform a tag search for items that are blue, the right product shows but it's going to show the red image in the sort results because that's what I've designated in the image tab.

Is there are way with K2, apart from putting every color option as its own product page, of showing the blue option in the sort results when a sort for "blue" is performed?

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11 years 7 months ago #121930 by Yiota
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What if your images were loading through extrafields (image type) and according to which tag was clicked the specific extrafield would load in place of the image with the correct image. This modification could be used only for the tag layout and not in the category listing.
The drawback in this is that you would have to use extra copies of the images that would be used for the extra fields of this view.

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