Only showing some of the new products

[pinbrook]

There's nothing under Brochure in site options or the layout tab to set new products layout... not that I can see

[wjcampbe]

"and / or a clearing <div> to force the layout to work in IE6" - don't understand this!

Jo, you can either use a <br/> (think of it as a soft return) as the end of each row or a <div style="clear: both;"></div>. IE6 will handle the div better. If you have a class set up to do the clearing, you could use that instead of the inline style attribute.

Just set up the middle row and mark the other two as not used.

[leehack]

There's nothing under Brochure in site options or the layout tab to set new products layout... not that I can see

SETTINGS | SITE OPTIONS | LAYOUT TAB | 4th sub heading (in bold) from the bottom.

[leehack]

I create my own <hr> styling and apply that in between each product in the list, it naturally creates some space between the items and it can have the clear style added to it, so it auto goes to the next line. Works across all 4 main browsers for me.

[wjcampbe]

I create my own <hr> styling and apply that in between each product in the list, it naturally creates some space between the items and it can have the clear style added to it, so it auto goes to the next line. Works across all 4 main browsers for me.

Can see how that would work well for the vertical sidebar lists, how do you handle the multi column stand-alone page/home page lists?

[leehack]

I'm only talking sidebars here Bill as the actinic standard CSS layout fails on IE6, i have not seen any issues with the main area CSS layouts, so have not ripped them apart.

[pinbrook]

SETTINGS | SITE OPTIONS | LAYOUT TAB | 4th sub heading (in bold) from the bottom.

yep i saw that

but thats not what i'm asking.... at least thats not what i think i'm asking.

I want to tell the brochure home page to use my new customised layout called "Home Page New Products Layout (DIV)" at the mo its stuck with the default "Home Page New Products Layout"

[pinbrook]

But I'm going to fess up, I've restored by snapshot and i'm going to live with the gap for now....

just run out of time and patience today. got other things to sort out first.

[wjcampbe]

Jo,

Right click on the Home Page New Products Layout and choose Edit Appearance, then select your new layout against Use Fixed Layout

[leehack]

I'm a little confused to be honest, i don't think either of us is quite sure what you are after.

Firstly, is it an outer layout? If so do as i mentioned and select it from the drop down box, if it is not available in there, then add it to the outer layout selector in design library first.

If this is just a layout for just an area with the outer layout, then you want to add the layout to your external layout by right clicking.

We need to grasp whether its an external layout or an internal layout i.e. just a particular part of the jigsaw.

[pinbrook]

I've realised where the confusion is, its not the overall layout i'm talking about.

its specifically where you call the new products layout into the brochure home page. This is different to the overall layout for brochure pages as the new products aren't shown on brochure pages, only the home page.

I think it is then further confused as I use the same layout for my new products, ue I hijacked the standard layout which arranges stuff linearly to using the mini grid.

But no worries i've scrapped the whole exercise, as my limited css skills have reached their peak for today. I'll come back when I'm feeling more refreshed.

[jont]

Don't forget you can create as many layouts as you want in the library and call them into the layouts at will... so they can be horizontal or vertical.

On www.barrelsandbottles.co.uk for example I have 3 lists made out of the 2 available..

New Arrivals = products 1 to 10 from the New Arrivals List
What's Hot = products 13, 14, 15 from the Best Sellers
Top Searches = products 15 to 16 from Best Sellers

Everything else is coming from fragments... with everything laid out using CSS... both horizontal and vertical formats.

[TraceyHand]

Well, I've done it the non-"purist" way and it worked for me (although it did take me nearly 2 hours due to my novice knowledge of layouts/blockifs etc)

I'm starting to like this "create a layout" thingiemajig though
I seem to be making them all over LOL

[pinbrook]

I had got it working sort of.... then the nail in the coffin was "coding errors" for some reason my code started to throw this error up on upload, I removed my block statements which had previously uploaded fine and coding errors went.

That was my cue to return to 9 products on both brochure home and designated pages and move on.

[Tricky]

Can somebody please help me with this.

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22ListIndex%22%20%2f%3e%20%3c%3d12" >
<actinic:variable value="Mini New Products Item" name="NewProductsItem" />
</actinic:block>

I'm trying to do exactly as requested by Tracy in the original thread, say 6 new products on the homepage and 12 in the new products section.

Not exactly sure how to use the block if's, as whatever I change on one page is immediately created on the other. Not quite sure how to implement the Listindex ie. 1-6 for the homepage and 1-12 for the section page.

Got as far the code above, I know not very far, but totally stumped.

Thanks as always in advance for your help, Richard

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