Help with Layouts

[praven]

Hi all

I'm looking for some more pointers on my layouts. The general style of my site is to have plenty of products on a page with minimal information about the product and then each product has an extended information page that opens in the same window. What I would like to achieve is on the section page to have an image, title and price only for each product and then to have the options, quantity and buy now button on the extended info page. I did start to play with the design and deleted the options layout from the section page, but that also removed it from the extended info page where I do want it.

Does anyone have any pointers for me on how to go about achieving this?

Cheers
Paul

[Bruce King]

Paul,

If you download the Advanced Users Guide from the Actinic Website in the 'Downloads' area, check page 81 for 'Single Product Per Page – Using Extended Information Windows'.

Kind regards,

[praven]

Hi Bruce
I've done that bit. What I want to do now is get rid of the options, qty and buy now button for each product on my section page and just have those bits displayed in the extended info page. I'm using the Standard With Image On Left layout on the section page and then my modified (as per AUG p.81) Includes Add to Cart Button layout for the extended info page.
Paul

[TraceyG]

Hi Paul,

On your 'Standard With Image On Left' layout you need to comment out the following code:

- to remove your product options:

AttributeList
ComponentList

- to remove your 'buy now' button:

AddToCartButton

- I wouldn't remove the quantity field, just make it hidden. Look for:

<input type="text" name="Q_ProductID" size="4" value="DefaultQuantity"

change 'input type="text"' to 'input type="hidden"'. This should appear twice in the layout.

To remove the quantity prompt, comment out the following (also appears twice):

            <br />
            <span class="actrequired">QuantityPrompt</span>
            &nbsp;

[praven]

Hi Tracey

That sounds exactly what I want but I must be doing something daft when I try to comment out the lines in the layout.

I am in Actinic in the design tab. I find my Standard With Image On Left layout and click on the Layout Code tab. Initially I tried putting a ; at the start of the line and then I tried using a #. In both case it doesn't seem to comment out the line and I just end up with lots of ; or # all over my page.

Making the quantity field hidden worked.

I'm sure this is a schoolboy error.

Paul

[TraceyG]

Hi,

HTML commenting is <!-- at the beginning of the code and --> at the end.

[praven]

I'm itching to try it out, but not in work until Wednesday now. I'll let you know how I get on.
Thanks
Paul

[praven]

Hi Tracey

Just wanted to say thanks very much. That worked a treat.

Paul