customising New Products list

[ianmcairns]

How can I change the New Products list so it only displays a summary of the product description - I'm sure I saw an option that limited it to 10 words but I can't find it now.

Also how does it generate the thumbnails - I have some that are 150px wide and others that are 200px - and the resized quilaity is not very good.

[dscontroller]

Ian,

Have you done a search of the site? It was put forward by Norman Rouxel and is also contained in the Advanced Guide.
See - http://community.actinic.com/showthr...limit+10+words

hth,
David

[ianmcairns]

descriptions good, thumbnails bad.

I've changed the code to introduce briefdescription as per Norman and this works fine.

When I try the code to use thumbnails as per adv user guide, it loads the specified thumbnails but messes up the formatting - sometimes the price appears above the text, sometimes below.

[Nadeem]

Hi Ian

When I try the code to use thumbnails as per adv user guide, it loads the specified thumbnails but messes up the formatting - sometimes the price appears above the text, sometimes below.

If the thumbnail images are different sizes then this would explain the formatting issue. What you could do is restrict the width and height pixel to a specific number, an example would be

<img src="<actinic:variable name="ProductThumbnailImageFileName" />" alt="<actinic:variable name="ProductName" />" width="100" height="100"/>

The above restricts all images to 100x100 pixel

That may be the way to go

Kind Regards

[NormanRouxel]

It was Zoltan from Actinic that produced the "brief description" mod.

I did the image resizing ones. Note that these should be treated as example code as they could be improved. E.g. some sort of caching, so the same thumbnail won't be recreated on a subsequent run of Actinic.