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#957161

As this is a directory, search and organization is key.

I have this data

Location
Australia
United States
UK

Category
Cleaner
Photographer
Event Planner

Businesses
Biz A
Biz B
Biz C

URL
http://thedomain.com/{Location}/{Category}/{Businesses}
e.g.
http://thedomain.com/australia/cleaner/biz-a

What I have done now
K2 category

• Australia
• • Cleaner
• • Photographer
• • Event Planner
• United States
• • Cleaner
• • Photographer
• • Event Planner
• UK
• • Cleaner
• • Photographer
• • Event Planner

Extra fields (JA K2 Filter)

• Country
• • State

The problem
It’s fine if its a single country like the demo, but problems arise when its multi country as can be seen how K2 categories are created, and the drop down of the search for categories will have multiple duplicates because of the categories duplication with different parent countries so if i search for category cleaner, 3 will appear.

Solution
Please help with advice on the solution? My other idea was to also create tags for categories, and allow for searching via tags. Is there a better way?

[Luna Garden Moderator Luna GardenJoin date: July 2011Posts: 2617Downloads:80Uploads:96 Thanks: 78 Thanked: 453 times in 425 posts]

#957853

What about adding parent category to the sub category, like Cleaner (Australia) . I’ll ask the developer if he could help you this custom.

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#958176

Thats what I did… i have a parent:

Australia…

then children:
Cleaner
Photographer

then ANOTHER parent

United States…

and children again..
Cleaner
Photographer..

So you see the problem…. if i search for cleaner, i will get TWO results …

[Luna Garden Moderator Luna GardenJoin date: July 2011Posts: 2617Downloads:80Uploads:96 Thanks: 78 Thanked: 453 times in 425 posts]

#958255

What about adding parent category to the sub category, like Cleaner (Australia)

I mean we’ll add parent name behind sub category.
Then if you search for Cleaner, 3 same results will appear, but distinguish by their parents’ name.
Like:

• Cleaner (Australia)
• Cleaner (United States)
• Cleaner (UK)

That’s my idea, what do you think ?

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