Customizing layered navigation by Categories in Magento

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I'm using layered navigation for a category in my magento store. But some products have multiple categories.

Say I have a category she. Again I have some other categories like t-shirt, cosmetics etc. A t-shirt may have both t-shirt and she categories. Again a cosmetics item may have both she and cosmetics categories. So when I'm displaying she category page, I want to show t-shirt and cosmetics categories in layered navigation. When user clicking on one of those categories (say t-shirt) it will show all the t-shirt which also fall in she category.

How to do this?

EDIT: Here one thing I need to make clear. she, t-shirt, cosmetics all are independent categories. none are sub category of another.

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this would work if you have one and the same product in category and sub-category. If you want to list all sub-categories for the category you should add your own block with this functionality. – Pavel Novitsky
@Pavel Novitsky, If all the categories are independent will the appear on layered navigation? – zahid9i
no, it works only for sub-categories and products – Pavel Novitsky

1 Answers

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This is a Magento feature, if it doesn't work it's because you have deactivate something in your code that break this functionnality.

This should work as a normal filter with name = 'cat' and value = category ids.

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