Kentico newbie here. Our client has many thousands of SKUs/products on his ecommerce catalog and hundreds of product types. In the kentico ecommerce example site, a product category page has a product filter webpart that helps customers find what they are looking for easily.

The current implementation of this webpart relies on product categories. This means that if a product manager creates 5 new product types with new fields etc, he would need to also create the relevant categories that would allow category-page filtering.

The ideal implementation could work like so: a user creates a new product type, adding all relevant fields to it, with values and form widgets for each one. A field could have a "is filter" property, that automatically "marks" this field to act as a filter on the category page. Then an apprioately developed webpart could auto-discover those fields, render their appropriate form control and values, and make the necessary post back to server.

This solution is better because it requires less administrative overhead plus it provides the site visitor with more options (dropdowns with values, checkboxes etc).

Could offer some advice on where to start looking in order to develop this?

Thanks.