bestsellers/newproducts

[pinbrook]

the default site has bestsellers and new products as a section in the left hand nav, the sections are also in the content tree. How do i create these

I don't want to show bestsellers etc in the design in boxes or mini layouts or on the home page etc, I want to have them as these extra sections ....

[wjcampbe]

Sorry Jo,

it appeared to work - until I found I had BestSellers at the top of every page.

It would still work, if wrapped in a condition which evaluates the pagename.

Create a new Section and name it (bestsellers?). With that page selected, go to the design tab.

Scroll down through the code until you find INNERLAYOUT and dooubleclick to open that. Scroll through the code until you find <a href="sectiontop"><div align="center">

Place the cursor alongside the div tag (by clicking in the code window) right click - choose insert layout, and then Best Seller List.

[You may need to go to the Marketing menu and add some items to the list to get it to show.]

[pinbrook]

yep I was working through and found similar.

Although the my layout doesn't have

Scroll through the code until you find <a href="sectiontop"><div align="center">

either.

I'm going to open a default site1 and see how it does it

[wjcampbe]

my layout doesn't have

I'm doing a v7 to v8 conversion, so that may be something the upgrader threw in. Its immediately after the Message for Unregistered Customers Layout marker.

[Jan]

Create the section that you want to be your best sellers, go to the layout tab in the section details and set the main product area layout to "Best Sellers Listing Page With Section Name at Top"

[fx: checks] hmmm ... the problem is that when you create a new section, there is no layout tab, it is there on the sections in the default sections but not on the any I create using new section. This looks like a little bug to me.

So try plan (b) create a new dummy site, select the new products and best sellers sections in there, change sites to the one that you wish to add these to and paste them into the catalog tree.

Cheers,

[pinbrook]

Comparing a default site1 with mine....

Stage one is definately create a section called "Bestsellers"

the problem comes in trying to populate the section with bestsellers. I don't think the layout chosen is greatly important, thats just how to layout, I can't figure out how to populate.

I've turned bestsellers off and on in marketting tab with no sucess.

[Jan]

Comparing a default site1 with mine....
Stage one is definately create a section called "Bestsellers"
the problem comes in trying to populate the section with bestsellers. I don't think the layout chosen is greatly important, thats just how to layout, I can't figure out how to populate.

The chosen layout is important - it means that the section will only include best sellers rather than products. Unless you have set the product layout to a best sellers layout, you will get products shown in the section not best sellers. The section name is irrevelant - I called mine test and it quite happily showed me best sellers.

I've turned bestsellers off and on in marketting tab with no sucess.

Have you clicked on the generate now button? If you see products listed in the table on the best sellers dialog then you should also see those products on best sellers pages.

Regards,

[pinbrook]

Have you clicked on the generate now button?

yes

Agreed the layout is important....

Solution.......

create a section called Bestseller. Go to Section Details, click on Layout tab. Section , Main Product Area Layout = Best sellers listing page with sectionpage at top (or your choice)

[pinbrook]

oh how I wish I could follow my own instructions. I'm now trying to do this for a diiferent site, but the attachedimage shows I don't have Main product Area Layout to change - where's it gone? or more to the point what should I activate to get it there

[Jan]

I had a similar problem - I have no idea why, but you can get around it by copying and pasting a best sellers / new products section from a different site.

Regards,

[pinbrook]

that worked, Ta Jan

Maybe this should be reported as a bug?

[bentleybloke]

How about this...

1. Created a Brochure page called Best Sellers
2. Navigate to the inner layout for your Brochure Page, in my case it is Standard Brochure Page Bulk and is in the Library under Web Page Inner Layout.
3. Copy and paste the following into the layout, above BrochureFragmentList Layout selector.

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22BrochureName%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22Best%20Sellers%22">
<actinic:variable name="BestSellersList" value="Home Page Best Sellers List" />
</actinic:block>