Best Seller Snippets

[mpwildeman]

Hi,

I followed the advice given in the "Speed up Performance" about generating the seperate best sellers list so you don't have to upload this everytime.

I followed the instructions in v9 help exactly. However its doesnt work. I just see the "Insert Best Seller" list not the best sellers.

A couple of thoughts

a) do I need to refresh the web site?
b) right at the end of the instructions is mentions

Note: There is a condition embedded within the 'BestSellersSnippet' layout selector that says 'PageType = "Search"'. This just means the 'bs-snippet.html' file only gets generated by one page in the store – the search page - but it can be included in any page in the store.

I want the best sellers only on the Home Page so I changed the code supplied to

<actinic:variable name="BestSellersSnippet" if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22Index%22" />
<a rel="fragment" href="bs-snippet.html">Best Seller List Inserted Here</a>


ie. changed to Index is that right? or is it meant to be Home


any advice helpfull

matt

[jont]

The variable for just the homepage is

<actinic:variable name="IsBrochureHomePage" />

[mpwildeman]

Tried that but still no luck.

new code is

<actinic:variable name="BestSellersSnippet" if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22 IsBrochureHomePage%22" />
<a rel="fragment" href="bs-snippet.html">Best Seller List Inserted Here</a>


I've followed the instructions in the help file very carefully (several times in fact) but can't seem to get it too work. I use the "Sidebar best sellers with horizontal dividers" which is a fixed format I believe, but then selected "fixed format" when creating the "page snippet"

Any ideas?

[jont]

Try wrapping your code in a blockif rather than in the middle of the variable (which is very strange) eg:

block is (IsBrochureHomepage)
Layout code
/block

that is the concept not the actual code to copy and paste