Only showing some of the new products

[TraceyHand]

If I generate a list of say 20 new products to display in a certain section of the website..is there a way I can instruct my sidebar display and my homepage display to only show the first SIX in the new products list generated?

I'd like a section on the website showing all the newly added items (often 20+ at a time) but I obviously don't want all these showing in the site-wide new product lists...just wondered if there is a way of just getting it to show the top 6 (Ok, I repeated myself there LOL)

thanks
Tracey

[brian.mc]

Marketing|New Products
Change "No of Products in List" to 6.
The new products listing in the sidebar and home page will show the 6 most recently added products

[TraceyHand]

thanks Brian
that's how I have it now.
But that only generates 6. It doesn't allow me to autogenerate a LONGER list (of 20) to place elsewhere on site.

what I want is to generate a list of 20 which will be detailed in a particular area on the website..but somehow get the sidebar and homepage lists to only show the top 6 of those.

[brian.mc]

Tracey, I don't think you can do that. I seem to remember an earlier post on this subject, where someone wanted to have the new products listing to be section specific and the reply was that it was site-wide.

We would certainly find it useful to be able to have different new product and best sellers list for each section.

Something for the wish list I think!

[TraceyHand]

hmmm...well I'm not wanting different products. I just want my sidebar and homepage listings to only show the first 6 and not all 20.

It seemed like such a simple request too

[jont]

Wrap you code in a block if and set it to use a condition such as

ListIndex <= 6

[jont]

Top Tip for the Day

OK.. whilst we are on the usage of Best Sellers and New Arrivals .... todays free design trick........

Using the ListIndex condition it is possible to create as many lists as you want for a site eg:

New Arrivals : use first 6 from the New Arrivals list
Top Featured Products : use products 7 to 15 from New Arrivals list
Managers Recommendations : use products 16 to 20 from New Arrivals list

.. that gives 3 lists from 1 list!

You can then do the same for the Best Sellers list. If you lock the products you can be very selective in what is shown.

This allows lots of flexibility to create a whole manner of lists to be titled as you want and to achieve different things. ListIndex is my best friend

[TraceyHand]

YAY!!!
works perfectly!!
Thanks jont

good to see someone else who manipulates their lists like I do too
LOL

Fan-blooming-tastic
Cheers

ETS..did take me a while work work out which layout to put the block actually in.. I'm only just getting to grips with how they work!

And...if I wanted to display say numbers 7-15, like in your post...how do I write that then?
Thanks!

[jont]

Cool huh??

To set ranges use

ListIndex >=7 AND ListIndex <=17

[TraceyHand]

oh yeh...dur...LOL

Thanks

[Duncan Rounding]

Good one Jonty!

AUG for that one Chris D?....

[TraceyHand]

Good one Jonty!

AUG for that one Chris D?....

For blatent "mis-use" of the "New products" facility



It certainly is a pretty flexible tool used like that though.. especially with the potential to manually generate TWO locked lists (new products and best sellers) and pick and choose items at will

I like!!

[Duncan Rounding]

On product/section pages; with some clever use of a couple of product/section scoped variables you could probably create a list of related products.

[TraceyHand]

with some clever use

I'll leave that one to someone else then

[Bruce]

Jont,

Nice one , I will add this one to the AUG thread too.

Regards,