Should I upgrade from Business v7 to v8?

[Duncan Rounding]

Not sure what you mean - I don't hide any subsections.
The subsections are the one product per page sections.

Edit: Ah - yes I have done what Bill has just posted above.

[pinbrook]

TopSectionList = No Layout
BottomSectionList = No Layout

thats the biscuit!!

[RuralWeb]

thats the biscuit!!

Exactly and much easier to do than the extended info method.

[pinbrook]

Can you set a default layout to a product duplicate so its different to its owner?

[RuralWeb]

Can you set a default layout to a product duplicate so its different to its owner?

yes you can - its much easier than it was with V7 - also there is now the option to locate the original product which was a big problem with V7 if you had lots of products.

[pinbrook]

yes you can

are you going to tell me how? please

[RuralWeb]

are you going to tell me how? please

Sorry jo - I misread your post - I have not looked into creating a separate default layout for the duplicates yet but i plan to as I need to do it for a new site.

[pinbrook]

using duplicates in this way could be useful, but preferably being able to have a different default layout assignable to duplicates, otherwise for me this doesn't work as a solution, as I don't really want to have to assign a layout manually to every duplicate.

Ie my product layout where I display one product per page is full of upsell ie also boughts and have a long product description, I'd want my list of duplicates to be compact ie image, first 20 words of product description, price, componemts and addto cart.

Maybe its one for the wish list?

Until there is a default I shall stick with my current layout
section
subsection
product
subsection
product

etc

and forgo the extra add to cart

[Duncan Rounding]

In the simple case I referenced in my previous post above the detailed layout has three images. I created two new variables to contain the two additional image names and then placed a block test in the 'standard product image' layout that tested for 'not empty. Then if there was any image name entered in the variable it would appear in the layout.

The same principle could be used to do any layout changes like that. I'm using a block test on the variable 'DuplicateIndex' to automatically change the product layout if it is a duplicate.

[RuralWeb]

have a different default layout assignable to duplicates,

I can see that this will be possible - I will have a play on the new site I am building. Maybe chris has some ideas.

[RuralWeb]

I'd want my list of duplicates to be compact ie image, first 20 words of product description, price, componemts and addto cart

My initial thoughts about this when V8 first came out were to create a layout which worked like the bestsellers ie it resized the image and cut the text down to the first 10 words. This would automate the compact layout for the duplicates if you wanted to use them like this.

[Duncan Rounding]

I posted this as an edit above:

I'm using a block test on the variable 'DuplicateIndex' to automatically change the product layout if it is a duplicate.

[pinbrook]

thanks Duncan, I'll look at this and post the block statement later as it will help others.

[Duncan Rounding]

Here's the block statement that I'm using to test for duplicates:

<actinic:variable name="DuplicateIndex" /> > 0

And attached is the full modified 'Standard Product Image' layout that I'm using (if it helps as it's obviously difficult to read outside Actinic). I added the ability to use the product thumbnail image instead of the main product image as well as making it clickable through cgi-bin with domain and Perl ID set as site variables.

[pinbrook]

One for the AUG I think

Ta Duncan