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Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by justsuspension 0n January 23 2009

I need a solution (or an alternative methodology) for the following problem. Our shop sells auto parts and we need to be able to sort them according to Year, Make, and Model. Our current approach has been to create three attributes (vehicle_year, vehicle_make, vehicle_model) and combine them into a single attribute set for use in layered navigation.

Year and Make don’t present much of a problem. There’s only about 100 values for vehicle_year and about 250 values for vehicle_make. The problem is vehicle_model. There are about 3800 possible vehicle models, and I simply can’t get Magento to load them all. I’ve manually entered over 1000 values at this point, but the process just continues to crash whenever I try to add more values or edit the existing ones.

Can anyone think of a solution for getting all 3800 values input, or is there a better approach we should be taking?

I’ve wondered about the possibility of having the attribute values come from an XML file… any bright ideas?

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