Can different product displays be assigned to different categories

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Yes. In the settings of your categories, you can find the "layout on product page" setting which allows you to select a specific layout to use on the product page of the products of that category.

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Hi,

Yes, you can add custom layouts to this list.
Edit "show_default" view file via the menu Display>Views, change the name "default" at the top and save and you'll the new layout with your file name based on the default one.
If the product is in two categories and that you have different layouts selected in the category and no layout selected in the product, it's the layout of the first category of the product which will be used.
Now having different layouts for a product based of where from you're accessing the product page is possible with some small custom code provided that the information from where you come is known (for example, by turning off the "simplified breadcrumbs" setting and having the "category_pathway" parameter in the URLs.

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If you look at the code of the "show" view file, you can see this code which loads the product page with the product layout selected:
$this->setLayout($this->productlayout);
echo $this->loadTemplate();
So just change the value of $this->productlayout before these to lines with the name of your view file for your layout based on the criteria you want.

Hi,

With complex coding changes, anything is possible.
But the way the system is built, it's not meant to have a different layout for different variants.