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[Lucent88]

How can I create sub-manufacturer?

For example - a lot of people use this manufacturer and brand. Many brand also has another series of name (product lineup) under their brand.

Dell
-inspiron
-latitude
-precision

Sony
-T
-S
-F
-FX

Honda
-Civic
-Del Sol
-Prelude


So, the product can be assigned to

Category: Electronic & electrnoic > computer & electrnoic > computer > laptop

Manufactuer: Dell & Dell > Latitude.

[balinor]

Probably easier just to use another main cateogory for MFR....

[Scott DeToffol]

I am looking for sub manufacturer as well. Is Balinor's suggestion of establishing a Manufacturer category/sub categories still a valid best practice?

Does 4.3 offer any flexibility in manufacturers? Any relevant mods out there?

[Stizerg]

Does anybody know a better solution? I see a lot of e-stores with such functionality, but obviously they based on something else but x-cart.

[jdiehl]

Personally I've never seen anything out there that would do what you are talking about. In fact I've never seen sub manufacturers in the world even. In the example given:

Dell
-Inspiron
-Latitude
-Precision

Technically those aren't sub manufacturers. Dell is the manufacturer, Inspiron and all those following are the Model. So you only have one Manufacturer. The only way you'd have a sub manufacturer is lets say something like:

Ford
-Lincoln

Since the Lincoln vehicles are technically made by Ford you might consider that a sub manufacturer, but that'd just be weird.

And I think it's because of this that X-Cart doesn't use sub manufacturers nor are there any mods. You might be able to create something like this with some indepth customization, but not sure it's worth the labor.

[Jon]

Making manufacturers unlimited would involve a lot of changes, I would highly recommend using categories. Perhaps you could add a 'Manufacturers' category and then have manufacturers and sub-manufacturer categories.