Product Layout Defaulting to Top Level Value

[Spingy]

Morning All,

I've got a little problem at the moment which I wonder if anyone can help me with. It smells a bit like a bug to me but there's every chance that I've simply missed something truly blindingly obvious, so here goes...

I have two different sorts of Product Lists (note 'List' rather than 'Layout' - the layout code is hard-coded in to avoid having to create yet another template) on a shop I'm developing at the moment. One contains full product details and the other is just a single line with the reference, price, quantity and some other variables.

What I would like to do is have the product at the top of the list on a page set as the full details one and the other products on the same page set as the 'minimalist' version. The Product List selector is settable at the Product Level and I have naturally set all my products individually as required. However, whatever I set at the Product Level the List appears to simply default to the Top Level Value setting in the selector dialogue.

I've searched the forum for similar issues but the only thing I've come up with thus far is: http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=35223. It's not quite the same situation but it's in the right area by the looks of it. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a solution to go with it.

I'm using 8.5.2 HMVA at the moment, so before I upgrade to 8.5.3 (which doesn't actually mention any bug fixes for this kind of thing anyway - if indeed it is a bug and not just me being dumb), I wondered if anyone had come across such a problem themselves and if so, how they got around it.

Any ideas what's wrong anyone? Many thanks in advance.

Angi

[TraceyG]

Hi,

I've tried this and it works fine for me. I did the following (based on default layouts in the library):

- on my inner layout (Section Page With Section Name At The Top) I added in 'ProductList' just above the instance that was already there
- right-click on the variable and select 'Edit Appearance' and I chose 'Product List With Horizontal Dividers' in the 'Use fixed layout' field
- I right-clicked on the second 'ProductList' variable and chose 'Standard Product List' in the 'Use fixed layout' field
- I then edited the 'Product List with Horizontal Dividers' layout and set the 'Use fixed layout' field for the 'ProductLayout' variable to 'Compact Layout using CSS' (note that this variable appears twice in this layout so you should change both)
- I didn't change the 'ProductLayout' variable in the 'Standard Product List' layout as this was using the default but could have set it to something else in the same way.

On viewing my page, I now have the products listed twice on the same page but the products at the top use a different layout to the ones at the bottom.