Catalog details - Name Variable

[deanp]

Hi

On my V7 site in the "Act_Primary.html" template I had NETQUOTEVAR:PAGEHEADER to give me the section name. I have now substituted this for <actinic:variable name="SectionName" /> in V8.

This works as it did in V7 apart from on the following pages

Catalog Details (e.g the root catalog page) - on V7 it used to give me the details from the "Name" field, in my case Product Range
Site Map - I used it to show the site map description as entered in View -> design options -> Navigation
Search - I used it to show the search description as entered in View -> design options -> Navigation

Any ideas how I can get this back??

Version 8.5.0 Multi User

[Bruce]

The variable to use is <title><actinic:variable name="PageTitle" /></title>

Kind regards,

[deanp]

Hi
Thanks for your reply. The only problem with using "<actinic:variable name="PageTitle" />" is that it puts the Company name from business settings in front of details I require. This didnt happen in V7

Regards

[Bruce]

I'm afraid that you can't change what that variable does. You can create a custom variable (Design | Library | Varaibles) and then set it to appear at section level, you can then assign a value for this for all your sections so it says exactly what you want it to.

Kind regards,

[pinbrook]

Try this thread....

http://community.actinic.com/showthr...ght=page+title

[Bruce]

Thats a much better solution, thanks Jo..

Regards,

[deanp]

looking at the solution offered, this wont appear to work in this case as my oroginal post is about "<actinic:variable name="SectionName" />" not showing the "section name" when on the search page, catalog details page etc.

Basically I have a primary template for sections and in this it puts the section name as a header and on V7 used to put Catalog Details name and search and site map desciption in as well.

I will not be able to create a custom variable, as the pages I want to use it on are the top level page "Catalog details", site map page and search page. My general section pages are fine and work with "<actinic:variable name="SectionName" />".

I think my only solution is to have a seperate template for these pages and either put up with using "<actinic:variable name="PageTitle" />" or create a template for each and hard code the heading.

Any chance of having future updates of V8 work as V7 did and let "<actinic:variable name="SectionName" />" work like NETQUOTEVAR:PAGEHEADER used to. It seems a bit point ledd haveing a field for Catalog details name and then only being able to use it in the title, lumping it together with the company name!

Regards

[Bruce]

I will pass this suggestion on to development for you.

Kind regards,

[NormanRouxel]

You could replace

<actinic:variable name="PageTitle" />

with

<actinic:block php="true">echo str_replace('Remove', '', '<actinic:variable name="PageTitle" encoding="perl" selectable="false" />');</actinic:block>

Where Remove is the code that you want deleted from the string. Look at your pages source code to get the exact text.

[Bruce]

There is a Bug with <actinic:variable name="PageTitle" /> not displaying anything in the checkout and search pages and will be fixed in the next maintenance release.

Kind regards,

[Simon TL]

Fixed?

There is a Bug with <actinic:variable name="PageTitle" /> not displaying anything in the checkout and search pages and will be fixed in the next maintenance release.

Kind regards,

Is this fixed? Thanks...

[Bruce]

Simon,

This was fixed for v8.5.1 ..

This is from the release notes:

- The cart/checkout/search etc. pages now have a page title that shows the company name. AC8-3058

Kind regards,