Need Store Structure advice - retail ebooks

[mfeury1050]

I sell digital downloads of ebooks [store not live yet], and can't find a way to incorporate Author info into my Category and Product pages. I want Author(s) displayed automatically in Cat and Product pages, based on my product upload file.

"Manufacturer" won't work, since a book can only have one Mfg##whereas I have plenty of books with multiple Authors. I use Mfg for different 'lines', eg Childrens, Non-fiction etc.

I don't see any other suitable input field where I can put Author name(s). It's a very important store functionality for me, as customers need to see Author name(s) when browsing##Author name is a key branding item in my industry.

[Not relevant to this afaik, but I have individual Authors set up as sub-Cats under the parent Cat Authors##so they are easily accessible via the expanded store menu. Each book is linked to the relevant Author sub-Cat(s), which enables all an Author's books to be listed when a customer clicks on an Author name in the menu]

Any advice on how I can achieve Author display with each product display? I don't see any ability to create custom fields, which would probably solve this.

Examples of what I want:

Category listing for Sci-Fi

Foundation
Isaac Asimov

Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C Clarke

The Light of Other Days
Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter

Dune
Frank Herbert

...

Product detail page

The Light of Other Days
Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter
...other product details

...

I would like similar functionality for book series, eg...
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Book 1 of the Foundation Trilogy
...but I can live without that if it's not easily doable.

Thanks
Mike.

[bavery261]

Hello,

[mfeury1050]

Thanks Bavery. Not the answer I wanted, but that's life

Mike.

[mfeury1050]

Trying to find best work-around for this. If I understand cart functionality correctly, to achieve auto Cat listing like...
Category listing for Sci-Fi
The Light of Other Days
Author(s): Arthur C Clarke, Stephen Baxter
...I need to use a QCtag which starts with "{RESULTS-"##is that correct?

The "Statistics" field looked promising, but it doesn't have a "{RESULTS-" version of its QCtag. Looks to me like "Short Description" is the only field I can press into action for this, since it has the {RESULTS-SHORT-DESCRIPTION} QCtag.

Is this so, or am I missing another approach?

Thanks
Mike.

[bavery261]

Hello,

[mfeury1050]

Thanks again Bavery, appreciate your timely help with this

Mike.