Custom Product Relations

Custom Product Relations

This extension allows you to handle from backend the creation of multiple product link types (relationships), as if they where regular product attributes.

So you can add a products attributes to an attributes set and create a new type of link to fill on the product edit page.

It provides an easy way to choose where to show each related product listing in the product page, and also as a CMS widget that is very easy to use, and also very customizable.

Custom relation display options (bear in mind that is possible to change the options, or add more)

Create new custom product relation.

Add a CMS Widget

Here is a video that shows how to add a new attribute to create a new product link type (relation).

That new relation will be shown in the product edition as a new tab where you can choose the products to relate.

Click here to watch the video of how to add a new attribute.

When the extension is installed, it automatically creates a new product attribute accesories that is added to the default attribute set. . You can create many of these, or modify this one if you like, it is just a default example.

This new attribute has the following options:

• Don't show: which allows to choose on each product where if show or not this product relation, or temporally disable it without need to delete the associated products.
• On the content: is an option to where to display the list on the product page.
• On the right: idem.
• On the left: idem.
• On the product view: idem, this would show the list inside the product view template (view.phtml) on the additional area at the bottom.
• Accessories title: is an example option to show how you could easily add different titles for each product, or different stores.
• Large template: is an example option to show how to set a custom template for the product listing.

Click here to watch the video of how to use the default "accesories" attribute

The extension allows you to create a specific widget for the new product relation types so you can add the list in any of your pages.

The widget allows you to set the title, choose the product, choose the attribute of the relation, set the template from a list of predefined templates and enter the number of column (for specific templates)

It is also possible to add new templates options by configuring your local.xml, that way the widget will list those new options

Click here to watch the video of how to add a Custom Relation Product List widget