Sections:20 products per page

[Francoisjvr]

Hi all,

I am trying to set my products, but having 300 products on one page would not do. Is there a way of splitting the 300 products from a specific section into pages so that you can view the first 20 and then click on page 2, 3, 4, 5 etc for the next 20 images?

Example: Landscape Photography section links to all 300 photos on one page, the small images are clickable to open a enlargement pop-up image, the add to cart button is next to the image. I want to keep it that way but limiting it to 20 items and then next 20 photos on next page.

I have quite a few thousand images which I am selling under different sections so HELP please.

Not sure if this is explained that well, I am not a native English speaker so pardon the twisted explanation.

Francois (oh yeah not French if you thought so)

[Francoisjvr]

I am really new to this, honestly. Anyone?

Francois

[RuralWeb]

This is not a standard feature of actinic so is not easily done. Also I would not reccommend having 300 products on one page for several reasons:

the page size will be large leading to download problems
people will get bored scrolling the page
poor search engine results

Best to break the images down into sections/subsection with 20 in each.

[giles.thurston]

I had a similar problem Francoisjvr but the only solution I could find was to create multiple sub sections each containing 10-20 products. There are details in the Knowledge Base of how you can then simultate paging between sub sections, you'll find it here:

http://knowledge.actinic.com/acatalo...ture.html#a451

I'd be interested if anybody else had any other solutions?

[Francoisjvr]

thanks for the information guys, sorry for the late reply, I was just so busy doing other stuff. I will look into this now and see how I should go about with the code insertion.

Many thanks
Francois

[Paul Cutcliffe]

I'm about to attempt to do the same in a database...

... so using the trick linked to in this article, to organise the navigation around the various pages, I will try to split the sections within the database.

I already have an Access database that allows me to place products on many pages, then exports products, duplicate products & sections so they will import into Actinic, but there are WAY too many products in some of the sections.

I'll post back here if I get it working.

[peblaco]

A customer of mine has a large amount of products and wants to know if there is some way of splitting them without having to manually create sections. They use a flat file import which also handles stock and can't really divide the sections any further into meaningful names. Is there PHP or Javascript that can do this for version 8?.

[Kiran]

Hi

As far as I'm aware the only workaroud is the one given in the Knowledge base, but if anyone else has another one please let us know.

Kind Regards

[los_design]

... so using the trick linked to in this article, to organise the navigation around the various pages, I will try to split the sections within the database.

I already have an Access database that allows me to place products on many pages, then exports products, duplicate products & sections so they will import into Actinic, but there are WAY too many products in some of the sections.

I'll post back here if I get it working.

Hi Paul

Any luck with this mate?

We are now attacking this for a client, so we may be able to collaborate if you like?

Regards

[wjcampbe]

They use a flat file import which also handles stock and can't really divide the sections any further into meaningful names.

Why not?

Flat file imports cater for multiple level sections.

[mediamole]

Yes you can create paging with Actinic. Using some JavaScript. Anyone needing some welcome to contact me