I’m building a marketplace and just devising all my datatypes. For my products I’m going to sell, I made an option set for the first category which would be Skin and Body, Home, Fitness etc. Within these categories I also have subcategories, I,e skin and body has a subcategory skincare, body wash, etc you can see what I mean (see sephora’s nav if you want a visual cue)
When I’m doing my data vs option sets, I’ve put this first category (skin and body, home fitness) as an option set - given the subcategory list (skincare, body wash etc) is derived from the primary category list items, would I make a new option set for these? Or would it be OK to put all these into the same option set.
Wondering how/when I can cut down on new option sets. Would love someone’s POV/expertise on this! Thanks
Hey! Okay good to know, thanks. Do you mind sharing a bit of the logic behind this? I thought they’d be option sets as my “buyers” who join the marketplace would select which category their goods fall into when they upload each product and when I learned about option sets this is the primary use of that! (standardizing selections like this for “users/buyers”)
You can also put both category and subcategory in one dataset (with a subcategory field indicator (or use the main category’s lack of a value to determine if it’s a parent or child)). In addition to minimizing the number of datasets you have, it will also allow you to have a search that checks both parents and children.
