Also Bought List not showing in Cart

[Barry]

Hi Guys

I have been unable to find the info i need in the Advanced User Guide, the Knowledge Base or this forum, hopefully you splendid folks can help and this post will help the (surely!) lots of others that (must be!) having the same problem as me

Ive enabled the Also Bought lists, ive processed the sales successfully so that other products are showing on the Marketing tab on all the product properties. Ive also added the layout ProductAlsoBoughtList to the shopping cart bulk area template using the Insert a Layout From Library button

But the Also Bought List will not show up in the cart. Is there something im overlooking here?

Thanks very much indvance for any light you can shed on this
!

[jont]

May be worth posting the code you have used to insert the layout into the cart area. By default the marketing lists show with no need for manual insertion.

[Barry]

Thanks for the reply Jont

Heres the part of the code from the View Cart Bulk Area template;

<p>To calculate your shipping/ postage charge click on 'checkout now'</p>

<actinic:variable name="ProductAlsoBoughtList" />

<p> <img src="check_red_md_wht.gif" width="30" height="24"><strong>100% Guaranteed Total

Which i would have thought would place the list just underneath the Shopping Cart info panel, Mmmm....

[Barry]

something else about this problem...

the above code is what i see when i Edit In Dreamweaver, hence the expaned Layout tag;

<p>To calculate your shipping/ postage charge click on 'checkout now'</p>

<actinic:variable name="ProductAlsoBoughtList" />

<p> <img src="check_red_md_wht.gif" width="30" height="24"><strong>100% Guaranteed Total

In the design window of actinic this reads like;

<p>To calculate your shipping/ postage charge click on 'checkout now'</p>
ProductAlsoBoughtList
<p> <img src="check_red_md_wht.gif" width="30" height="24"><strong>100% Guaranteed Total

...Where the line ProductAlsoBoughtList is bold and purple in colour

But after uploading, there is no sign of any of this code anywhere in the cart!

perhaps im pasting it in the wrong part of the cart templates that go to make up the cart? or perhaps im pasting it in wrongly altogether?

If anyone has any ideas they will save me another rollocking!!

[jont]

In a default theme you need to be in layout

Checkout Shopping Cart Grid

right click on this in the library and compare with the default settings for any missing / changes to the code

In the default layout above on line 54 I see

<actinic:variable name="ShoppingCartAlsoBoughtItems" value="Also Bought Items in Shopping Cart" />

..note it will show in purple as :

Also Bought Items in Shopping Cart

.. whereas you are inserting the Product Also List

HTH

[Barry]

Jont you're an angel! worked a treat when i pasted in;
<actinic:variable name="ShoppingCartAlsoBoughtItems" value="Also Bought Items in Shopping Cart" />
to the cart template!

Thanks so much for that!

To make this thread more helpful to others, Im now trying to get the product images to show in the Also Bought list as well, mine is showing only a text list. So far i have commented out this line

<Actinic:REMOVE TAG="ImageLine"><img src="<actinic:variable name="Thumbnail" />" <actinic:variable name="ThumbnailSize" /> /></Actinic:REMOVE>

Which I thought would do it but it made no difference, the word REMOVE seems like it could be trying to tell me something!

and also followed the tips in this post;
http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=24830

But still no product images in the Also Bought List in the Cart

any ideas Jont or anyone? ill post back here if i find a solution

thanks again Jont

[Barry]

Yikes!

Sorry, that should of course say;

I have UN-commented out;

<Actinic:REMOVE TAG="ImageLine"><img src="<actinic:variable name="Thumbnail" />" <actinic:variable name="ThumbnailSize" /> /></Actinic:REMOVE>

Im not familiar with that REMOVE tag, could that be why im seeing no images?

[TraceyHand]

do you have thumbnails for your products?
This is taking the image entered into the "thumbnail" prompt for your products so it assumes you have some (it doesn't resize the original product image)

[Barry]

Hi Tracey

thanks for the reply

No i dont have thumbnail images entered for any products, i only want to have the original product image showing in the Also bought list. No need for thumbnails as the images are quite small already

[Donna Kempster]

It needs to have a thumbnail image registered for it to work. Put the product image in the thumbnail as well. D

[Barry]

thanks again for the help

ive tried a bit of a rude hack, changing the above code to;

<Actinic:REMOVE TAG="ImageLine"><img src="<actinic:variable name="ProductImageFileName"/>" <actinic:variable name="ProductImageWidth"/> /></Actinic:REMOVE>

on upload it gave me a coding error warning about those two variables being used out of context, but to hell with it im going to upload anyway and see if it works...

[Donna Kempster]

I tried that and it wnet horribly wrong LOL but you are prob better at coding than me! In the end I just copied all our product image files into the thumbnail's as well D

[TraceyHand]

If you are going to use the product images, then you need to specify the width for them to be sized down by the browser, get rid of the width variable and hard code a width such as width="75". Check out the layouts for best sellers and new products to show you how.

I don't think that works in the cart though, Lee

[TraceyHand]

lol

jees, chill

I mean using either the product image or resizing it, doesn't seem to work.
Last time I mentioned it, it got no response (I'll dig the thread out although, god help me, I could be a while!)

[TraceyHand]

ok..one previous thread about this is HERE

there's another somewhere, I'll dig it out (maybe!)