Show all products

[paulcreedy]

If I have products inside categories/departments, is there a product fragment or way of displaying ALL the products on the same page regardless as to what category they are in?

What I'm trying to achieve is:

Show products within a category as default
Menu item when clicked to show ALL products on the page regardless of their category.

[NormanRouxel]

Not too sure what you mean by inside categories/departments.

Here's a quick and dirty way to have a page showing all your products regardless of the Section they are in:

Create a page with only a single Fragment in it.

Into the fragments Text field put:

!!<
<actinic:block type="EntireSectionList">
	<actinic:block type="ProductList">
		<actinic:variable name="ProductLayout">
	</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>
>!!

If you're talking about Content Categories, a more full explanation with some example products described may help.

[paulcreedy]

Hi Norman

Let's say I had a books category and a computer category.
When I click on books, I see all the books, click on computers, I see all the computers...etc.

What I'd like is a page for 'all' that when clicked on shows the books and computers for sale together on the same page. Even though they would normally be displayed separately.

The link to the page is fine as I'm hard coding it all with html. what I'm looking for is the appropriate product list/selector (sorry not familiar with terminology), that will show ALL the products.

[Rich Brady]

Can't you create a new Top Level Section and call it "All Products" and then populte it with duplicates? Or have all your originals in there and then put your duplicates into the category specific sections?

[NormanRouxel]

Still no cleared as to what "a books category and a computer category". Do you mean "Sections", which is the Actinic name for a page containing sub-sections or products?

If so, then my post #2 above is exactly what you need.

[paulcreedy]

Can't you create a new Top Level Section and call it "All Products" and then populte it with duplicates? Or have all your originals in there and then put your duplicates into the category specific sections?

Good idea. That would do it, but trying to avoid having to duplicate the products.

[paulcreedy]

Still no cleared as to what "a books category and a computer category". Do you mean "Sections", which is the Actinic name for a page containing sub-sections or products?

If so, then my post #2 above is exactly what you need.

Sorry, I'm still getting the hang of the terminology used in Actinic. Looking at Actinic now, Books and computers would be Sections. Inside those sections would be the products.

So for example there would be a books section with book products, and a computer section with computers. I would like an ALL section/link that lists all sections on the page page.

I'll have a bash at your example now....

[NormanRouxel]

Got you now. We're talking about "Sections".

Just create a new top-level Section called "ALL" and into it put the Fragment as per my post #2.

That will display everyhing without needing any duplicates and it will automatically display all products when you add some new ones.

[paulcreedy]

Got you now. We're talking about "Sections".

Just create a new top-level Section called "ALL" and into it put the Fragment as per my post #2.

That will display everyhing without needing any duplicates and it will automatically display all products when you add some new ones.

That did the ticket!

Thank you

[NormanRouxel]

Super. Note that for your "ALL" section, in the Section Details / layout, you should be able to select a product layout which will be used for all the products shown.