brouchure fragments & columns

[RiccoPlatinum]

hi. am building a new site on v8 and have copied my old v6 catalog database to v8. just trying to get the look right at the moment..
can you guys help on a few things??

1. would like to have a mixture of brouchure fragments so first one would be just the title ie welcome then would like 2 fragments together (smiilar to the best sellers list). did this using multi column fix in v6, is it possible to do v8???

2. would like to have the new products list before the best sellers list on home page (not side bar).

3. would like to have brouchure fragments after new products & best sellers list.

can you tell me what i would have to edit or change to get these 3 things done..

many thanks

[RiccoPlatinum]

how do i get brouchure fragments after new products list??

can someone please tell me how to (in basic step by step instructions) get brouchure fragments to display before + after new products list??

[RiccoPlatinum]

how do i Set a condition within standard brouchure fragment list

Found an answer on the forum but i cant get my head round this new actinic.
Got to point 5, am stuck.
Can someone tell me how to "Set a condition within 'Standard Brochure Fragment List'" (in basic steps please) or even better how to do this... thanks

You can do what you want by including more than one fragment list on the page, and setting conditions about which fragments appear in which list.

Here's how:

1. Go to 'Design | Library | Variables' and create a new variable called 'IncludeInFragmentList'
2. Make it settable at fragment level
3. Then go to the 'Layouts' tab and expand the 'Fragment Lists' group
4. Right-click on 'Standard Brochure Fragment List' and select 'New Layout'. Call it 'Top Fragment List' or something.
5. You now have two fragment lists to play with, and you can now set a condition on each list to only include certain fragments in each list.
6. Set a condition within 'Top Fragment List' to only show fragments where 'IncludeInFragmentList' equals 'top'
7. Set a condition within 'Standard Brochure Fragment List' to only show fragments where 'IncludeInFragmentList' equals 'bottom'
8. You can now go into the fragments in your store and set a value for 'IncludeInFragmentList' of 'Top' or 'Bottom' depending on where you want to fragments to appear on the page.
9. Finally, customise 'Standard Brochure Page Bulk' and click the pink circle button with a + to insert the 'BrochureFragmentList' layout selector into the design - but use a fixed layout of 'Top Fragment List'
10. This will include a list of fragments into the design - but only include the layouts where 'IncludeInFragmentList' equals 'top'

To create two different product lists - one which just does products and one which just does fragments - is easy. Simply go into the 'Product Lists' group in the library and right-click on 'Standard Product Lists' and select 'New Layout'. Call it 'Standard Fragment List'. Now edit 'Standard Fragment List' to remove all references to the 'ProductLayout' selector, and edit 'Standard Product List' to remove all references to the 'FragmentLayout' selector.

You can then just insert them into your 'Main Product Area' layout (whatever that is called) where you want the lists to appear.

[jont]

Can someone tell me how to "Set a condition within 'Standard Brochure Fragment List'" (in basic steps please) or even better how to do this... thanks

If you take a look in the HELP and the AUG there are some examples to help you through these.

In this case in the layout mentioned by Chris highlight the fragment layout and click on the green button to insert a "block if" statement .. in the pop up start typing the variable "IncludeInFragmentList" and it will appear in the list, click to select then enter the condition == and then top. The finished code will look like

IncludeInFragmentList == top

[RiccoPlatinum]

hi. is this right?? (i really dont know, just as i was getting used to html).
someone please have mercy...


<actinic:block if="<actinic:variable name="IncludeInFragmentList == top" />">
<actinic:variable name="FragmentLayout" />
</actinic:block>

[TraceyG]

Hi,

The easiest way to get this right is to highlight the variable that you want the condition to go around (in your case it would be 'FragmentLayout'). Then click the 'green' circle icon (Insert Block). In this window, start typing your variable 'IncludeInFragmentList' and you will see it appear in a pop-up menu. Select it from this menu and it should appear in blue and underlined. After that type =="top" and click 'OK'.

[RiccoPlatinum]

hi tracey. thanks for you reply but i am still stuck..
when i first edit i get this

<actinic:variable name="FragmentLayout" />

have tried a variety of ways but they all dispay some kind of text on screen like "> or FragmentLayout" /> instead of the fragments themselves, so i know something is wrong.
also when i highlight 'FragmentLayout' and add condition 'includeIn...' it goes red or green but never blue..

could you please edit it and paste it on here so i can see what its supposed to look like after adding condition, pleeeaasse..
ive been on this on and off for 4 days and its driving me nuts (epsecialy as its something so simple).

[RiccoPlatinum]

hi. managed to figure it out after reading the starters guide.. was in the wrong editing screen (advanced). everything was easy after clicking box on left of edit screen (to get it to basic edit).. also got my other points on my list done after.
steep learning curve on v8 to start but now i see its a lot easier and quicker to find the layout and code instead of playing hunt the template. well done actinic!!