Placing one vocabularly underneath another?

Question

I've got the following two vocabularies:

Categories, with items:

• Big
• Medium
• Small

Make, with items:

• Samsung
• Whirlpool
• KIC

I've then made a product content type, where these two categories are required.

My problem comes in where I want a menu (preferably using taxonomy menu and dhtml menu) so I can obtain the following menu:

• Big
  • Samsung
  • Whirlpool
  • KIC
• Medium
  • Samsung
  • Whirlpool
  • KIC
• Small
  • Samsung
  • Whirlpool
  • KIC

How can I go about accomplishing this?

I know, normally it would be fairly easy if I made only ONE vocabularly, and for each taxonomy term, i add the make as sub-terms... but I want to do it my way, so that if a new make comes on, that I don't have to go add it to each category. Does that make sense?

Answer 1

Hierarchical Select is the best tool like that I've heard of, but it doesn't play well with two different vocabularies- the module needs the tiered relationships to be defined externally, either by a taxonomy hierarchy, Views, and so on.

I don't think the model of two separate vocabularies will easily be supported by any existing module. If one of the "categories" were presented as a series of nodes tagged by the first category, you might build something with Views & Hierarchical Select to achieve what you want.