Elegant interface for associations with a lot of data

Question

I have an e-commerce site where you need to make several associations, for example. product requires category, manufacturer, related products, etc.

When there is only a fairly small, limited amount of data, for example. Manufacturer. I simply use drop-down or extra fields to select fields and fields by the user.

However, for items such as related products, where I have thousands or products, it is not practical to use one of these methods. At the moment I am using a search / upload table, which the user clicks on the button to add an association, this works, but for the user it takes quite a lot of time, and not what I consider to be an ideal solution to the problem.

Has anyone implemented a solution to this problem, or could he give any recommendations as to how they will come from the point of view of the user interface?

Thanks for any help you can be.

Answer 1

The solutions I can think of are as follows:

• Autofill
• Recent Associations

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