<actinic:variable name="SectionLink" />

[danlou84]

Hey all,

I have a section in actinic and then 4 sub-sections then a product in each of these sub sections.

I want to display a "brand of the week" on the front page. I've done this by making the graphics/html table and fragmenting it into the home page at the top.

For each brand each week I want to display there section link. E.g the brand is the section - and I want to freely display the page within this table.

example - http://www.32squared.co.uk/acatalog/ArtJunkie_.html

the subsection links are the pictures of the 5 t shirts. That is the infomation I wish to display.

How can I display that using an actinic:variable?


Dan

[NormanRouxel]

Actinic's built-in "New Products" capability (see Marketing / New Products) will do this for you automatically. Are you aware of this?

[danlou84]

Im currently using that for something else..

All I'm after is a way of displaying the sectionlink's subsections.

I need more control than the new products capability offers.

[danlou84]

IM guessing i would need the sectionpagename and section id?

[leehack]

Why not simplify things, and have either a random image and link or a slideshow running that brings up random graphics and links. Each time a page is loaded it serves up a random graphic and link and there is no management at all then.

[danlou84]

Can you recommend a good random graphic/link loader? guessing java based?

[leehack]

Take the one running on my home page if that's the sort of thing you want. It's Javascript yes.

[danlou84]

Also the main importance of this is because I am charging each brand a fee to be the "brand of the week" hence the need for some sort of control over it.


Dan

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I've hacked the best sellers list to give me the desired effect, I'll just have to change it once a week.

Which seems fine.

D

[NormanRouxel]

Back to your original request. You could do something like this. Make a Section level variable of type True/False called BrandOfWeek with default value False.

Then use code like

<actinic:block type="EntireSectionList">
  <actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22BrandOfWeek%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20true" >
  DISPLAY SECTION INFO HERE	
  </actinic:block>
</actinic:block>

Here's the above in English:

<actinic:block type="EntireSectionList">
<actinic:block if="<actinic:variable name="BrandOfWeek" /> == true" >
DISPLAY SECTION INFO HERE
</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>

Then just set / unset that variable in the appropriate section each week.

This is fine if only on the home page. It may need a lot of compute time if you put it on every page.

[danlou84]

Awesome Norm, nah its just on the home page