Hi,
There needs to be automatic collection object creation for:
- Tags
- Product Types
- Vendors
The associated collection object would be accessed by {{ collections["vendor.vendor_name"] }}, {{ collections["tag.tag_name"] }}, and {{ collections["type.type_name"] }}
This would allow us to construct a "Related Products" section easily. For example you would do:
{% for tagName in product.tags %}
<h2>Related products: {{ tagName }}</h2>
<ul>
{% assign tagCollection = 'tag.' | append: tagName %}
{% for collectionProduct in collections[tagCollection] %}
<li>{{ collectionProduct.title }}</li>
{% endfor %}
<ul>
{% endfor %}
<h2>Other products from: {{ product.vendor }}</h2>
<ul>
{% assign vendorCollection = 'tag.' | append: product.vendor %}
{% for collectionProduct in collections[vendorCollection] %}
<li>{{ collectionProduct.title }}</li>
{% endfor %}
<ul>
Next, there needs to be a way to get a collection object that's the intersection of two or more collections. For example, if you wanted to get a collection of all Shirts from Aeropostale, you would do:
{% assign vendorCollection = 'vendor.' | append: product.vendor %}
{% assign typeCollection = 'type.' | append: product.type %}
{% assign newCollection = vendorCollection | intersect: typeCollection %}
<h2>All {{product.type}}s from {{ product.vendor }}:</h2>
<ul>
{% for collectionProduct in newCollection %}
<li>{{ collectionProduct.title }}</li>
{% endfor %}
<ul>
Easy. There should also be a way to hyperlink to a collection intersection, eg.: storename.myshopify.com/collections/vendor_Aeropostale&type_shirt&tag_red
Which would give the collection page for all red shirts from Aeropostale.
This would allow for the development of native catalog filtering without an extension.
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