Thread: Can we add an additional field to the listings

Can we add an additional field to the listings

This is something I have felt useful which I have running on my site www.kachavadom.com. In the opening page listing the latest ad it would be good if there was a category field too included. So when the list of latest ads are shown each listing would also show what category they belong to. So later on when you bring sortable listings people could just sort the latest page on category and see only the category they want. Similarly a sub category could be incorporated into other pages so in the event of sub category for a category the listing will show which sub category the listing belongs to. Ex if the category is real estate. You would have sub categories like apartment, property etc. So in the event there are sub categories as in the example for real estate page when a user click the real estate page the listing page would show the sub category for each listing which again could be sorted once you incorporate sorting so a person looking for apartment can browse only thought apartments in Real estate. what do you think?

Re: Can we add an additional field to the listings

Im planning to setup catagories (like Real Estate) and then their child category (Apartment etc) which will again have a child category (for sale, for rent, wanted for purchase, wanted on rent). So if we set up each listing page to show the next child category as a field in the listing. The latest page would show a Category field showing its next child which is our real categories. When you take a category page it will show the next child property as the Category so in our Real Estate page it would show (Apartments, Property etc) And if we clcik on that child category it would show the next child relation as a Category of listing (ie for sale, wanted for purchase etc.) Its just that we need to choose the child property for each category when its created so that it gets listed. It would be great what do you think?

Re: Can we add an additional field to the listings

David can this be done?

Re: Can we add an additional field to the listings

Yes, if you wanted to add another column on the listing page called Category it's pretty easy. Then to call the ad category you'd want to use the following code: