How can i integrate Product & Category Model

I wan to use the properties of both entities (Product and category) in one of my view for that i need to inegrate both the models in a single model , can any one assist me with it. thanks

Create your own ViewModel class with the properties you need. Fill in the properties either in the controller or preferably in the service, and use it in your view.

For example:

//you didn't specify if this is a modification or sepparate plugin development, hence no namespace :)

public class MyProductDetailsViewModel
{
       public int ProductId {get;set;}
       public int ParentCategoryId {get;set;}
       public string ProductName {get;set;}
       public string CategoryName {get;set;}     

}

Just look through the source code, it's full of examples of this! For example the Product page (ProductDetails, ProductPrice...) :)

Well , not a plugin , just need to make some modifications as i need to show all the sub-categories with their products on one page.

I hope it's for a small number of categories and products :)

Then your viewmodel would me more like

public class MyCustomCategoryModel
{
       IList<CategoryModel> Categories {get;set;}
}

You don't need Products because the CategoryModel class already includes its child products. In fact, this is quite similar to what the Sitemap does, so I encourage you to have a look at Controllers\CommonController.cs, Sitemap() action, around line 370. There you can see how to fetch the categories and convert them into CategoryViewModels, just to fill the SitemapModel.

Hope it helped!
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Well the issue is , I can show the products by using category model , but i cant show it using subcategory model , i tried adding product model to the subcategory model which is in the category model.

public class SubCategoryModel : BaseNopEntityModel
        {
            public SubCategoryModel()
            {
                PictureModel = new PictureModel();
                
            }

            public string Name { get; set; }

            public string SeName { get; set; }

            public PictureModel PictureModel { get; set; }

            public IList<ProductModel> Products1 { get; set; }
        }

but i cant get intellisense when trying to edit subcategories in the CategoryTemplateGridorLines.cshtml:

@*subcategories*@
    @if (Model.SubCategories.Count > 0)
    {
        <div class="sub-category-grid">
            @(Html.DataList<CategoryModel.SubCategoryModel>(Model.SubCategories, 3,
                @<div class="item-box">
                    <div class="sub-category-item">
                        <h2 class="category-title">
                            <a href="@Url.RouteUrl("Category", new { categoryId = item.Id, SeName = item.SeName })" title="@item.PictureModel.Title">
                                @item.Name</a>
                        </h2>
                 <div class="products-subcategories">
                           @item.Products   //cant get intellisense of the product which should be name , description etc
                    </div>
                </div>
            ))

And when i run this and click on the category it comes up with the error :
Compiler Error Message: CS1061: 'System.Collections.Generic.IList<Nop.Web.Models.Catalog.ProductModel>' does not contain a definition for 'Name' and no extension method 'Name' accepting a first argument of type 'System.Collections.Generic.IList<Nop.Web.Models.Catalog.ProductModel>' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Hello there,

I want to merge productmodel and categorynavigationmodel to display left navigation in individual product page. Integrated both but, gives the error "The model item passed into the dictionary is of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[Nop.Web.Models.Catalog.ProductModel, but this dictionary requires a model item of type 'Nop.Web.Models.Catalog.customModel".

Or any other idea to display left navigation in product page?

Please help me to solve this.

Thanks in advance.