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Currently Magento 1.9.1.0 allows to show only a single attribute on the listing page as a swatch (product details page can have multiple attributes showing).

Since I've 30+ manufacturers (and each has about 20+ colors), I've a separate color attribute for each manufacturer. I would like that all of my different color attributes will show on the listing page.

How can I make it happen?

Thank you in advanced for any tip.

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In the module the app/code/core/Mage/ConfigurableSwatches/Helper/Productlist.php is the helper which determines which _swatchAttributeId should be used.

You could extend this module and rewrite the helper. Rewrite the getSwatchAttributeId function and do you own magic.

You could

  • just add some id logic, Mage::registry('current_category')->getCategoryId()
  • add a custom option for a category which you can set per category
  • read it from the attributeset used for the first product
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While this is not a direct answer I feel it still has merit. Having multiple attributes for colors by different manufacturers could lead to a namespace conflict.

For example if you have attributes nike_color and reebok_color and both have an option "Red", you might get the wrong swatch if you upload red.png to /media/wysiwyg/swatches/red.png.

For this reason I feel the need to prefix the swatch name with some kind of namespace indicator.

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