I am trying to: created different archive views for different product categories. So far I saw I can choose different archive views for different taxonomies, but not for categories.
I have 2 product categories:
1) regular diamonds
2) colored diamonds
the regular diamonds need to be in a table.
the colored diamonds in a grid.
Toolset enables you to customise WordPress archives without code, but it doesn't have the same granular level of control as the native WordPress template hierarchy.
Toolset lets you specify a custom template to use for displaying category archives (for any category), but stops short of the native WordPress ability to use different templates for different categories. (You can see how this works in native WP here: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/#examples.)
So, in Toolset, the same template will be used regardless of the category being viewed.
You can, however, use conditional shortcodes in your custom archive template to output alternate HTML blocks depending on the category being viewed.
You would use conditional shortcodes that looked something like: