Associating articles to a product

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I can see references to putting products in an article, but what about the other way around--when you display a product have a list of related articles or brochure. This seems simple and I cannot figure it out.

Hi,

It's a classic case for the use of custom fields. So, indeed it's simple.

I guess I am stupid, I see how that might work for direct linkage of a product to a finite list of brochures, but not to articles.

I have not used custom fields, but in looking at them I do not see the tie back to a Joomla article (other than a URL that you would need to click on and add one-by-one to each product it relates to). I was hoping that I could relate an attribute of a product to a attribute of an article and have all the related articles show up, say, below the item. I see that I could add some other piece of data, but how do you relate that to an attribute on an article.

I would like it to function like the "synchronization" method on a content module--but with articles. Then when a new article is added, you do not have to go back to each product and make an entry.

Well, sorry, the complexity you are thinking of wasn't clear to me from your original post, so I was trying to remind of that simple way.

Anyway, you'd always need to first manually create those relationships in between individual products and articles (or groups/categories/tags thereof), and hence, even with certain dynamics then being possible, it's always somewhat finite, I guess.

While this might be not on board out of the HikaShop box, it's certainly possible, e.g. with some custom plugin or so, but sure including code development or modification.