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I have a site that will require a URL structure similar to this:

site.com/products/home/brand_A/
site.com/products/home/brand_B/

site.com/products/office/brand_A/
site.com/products/office/brand_B/

brand_A and brand_B aren’t URL titles, but is a template that needs to pull all entries that belong to that category(home or office) and that brand. I feel like I’m over-thinking this, but I’m at a loss, so any help is appreciated.

Thanks

do the office and home product template vary greatly?

Keep your URLs exactly as you have them, and only use one template:

products (template group)—> index (template)

in the index template, you can use the variables {segment_2} (home or office) and {segment_3) (brand) to drive the content in that template.  Of course, you can include or not include different things in the template based on the results of those segments as well - so even if the template layouts are greatly different, you can use the one index template to drive everything.

Note that you can use the search function of the channel entries tag to return only the results you are looking for.

does that make sense?

Okay. I’m following you for the most part. I’ll play around and see how it goes. Thanks for the input.

Hey Stuart,

Thanks for posting your question on the forums!

Building a bit on Mark’s advice, if home and office are channel names, you could have {segment_2} used as a parameter. Now, if you make your Brands categories, you can use Seg2Cat to make things super easy:

{exp:channel:entries channel='{segment_2}' category="{segment_3_category_id}"}
  <h1>{title}</h1>
  {body}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Cheers,

Dan,

I think I have a handle on this using the search function that Mark mentioned, but I appreciate you throwing out some more advice.

Awesome!

Is there anything else I can assist you with?

Cheers,

I’m good. Thanks Dan.

Hey Stuart,

I am really glad to hear that Dan was able to help out!!

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,