How do i display Top-Level Sections list on home page

[marky9378]

Hi

I have been searching for a while now how do i display everything from the Top-Level Sections list on the home page.

I want it to display the same as best sellers and new products list.

[leehack]

Create your own fragment layout that looks as you want, set the fragment column count on the brochure page (home page) to be what you want ie 3 or 4 wide and then add a fragment for each link and use the link facility on each fragment to point it to where it needs to go if clicked. That's probably your easiest way of doing it.

[marky9378]

is there any write up on this on actinic's knowledge base?

[leehack]

I have no idea, why not take a look and find out.

[marky9378]

I have searched lol but i think the search facility is not that good on there

[NormanRouxel]

What does "display everything from the Top-Level Sections list" mean?

Do you want to display all the products that are directly within the top levels sections?

Something else?

[marky9378]

Hi

I want to display the top level sections within the main content of the home page like the best sellers and new products display i want my top level sections to display the same.

So you have the section name then section image and so on so when a person clicks on it they get taken straight to that section.

[NormanRouxel]

Something like:

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsBrochureHomePage%22%20%2f%3e" >
	<actinic:block type="TopLevelSectionList">
		<div style="width:200px; float:left;">
			<actinic:variable name="SectionLink" value="CSS Section Link Layout" />
		</div>
	</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>

[marky9378]

Perfect Thanks have you got any answers to this one - http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=46630

[NormanRouxel]

No. I'm a volunteer and don't look at posts unless I want to.

[marky9378]

Something like:

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsBrochureHomePage%22%20%2f%3e" >
	<actinic:block type="TopLevelSectionList">
		<div style="width:200px; float:left;">
			<actinic:variable name="SectionLink" value="CSS Section Link Layout" />
		</div>
	</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>

Hi done this but how do i go about displaying 2 columns?

[NormanRouxel]

Fiddle with the 200px value.

This puts each item left aligned in a 200px wide DIV. So if your available width is 600 you'd have room for 3 across. Use a value that's a bit smaller than half the available width.

Your profile says your organisation is "All Web Services". Shouldn't you know something about basic HTML / CSS with such a moniker?

[marky9378]

Fiddle with the 200px value.

This puts each item left aligned in a 200px wide DIV. So if your available width is 600 you'd have room for 3 across. Use a value that's a bit smaller than half the available width.

Your profile says your organisation is "All Web Services". Shouldn't you know something about basic HTML / CSS with such a moniker?

New to Actinic So Basically Have not got a clue on how to use actinic this is my second site with actinic which is going into more depth.

so its all new still learning the basics of it all as everyone has to start somewhere

[NormanRouxel]

Here's how to display these using a 2 column TABLE with a pretty dotted border around each item.

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsBrochureHomePage%22%20%2f%3e" >
	<table cellspacing="10"><tr>
	<actinic:block type="TopLevelSectionList">
		<td style="padding:5px; width:50%; border:1px dotted silver; vertical-align:top;">
			<actinic:variable name="SectionLink" value="CSS Section Link Layout" />
		</td>	
		<actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22ListIndex%22%20%2f%3e%20%25%202%29%20%3d%3d%200" ></tr><tr></actinic:block>	
		</div>
	</actinic:block>
	</tr></table>
</actinic:block>

Note that the inline style might be better replaced with a class.

Note that you can use maths in conditions. I'm using (ListIndex % 2) == 0 to detect the even numbered cells and start a new row if required.

[marky9378]

so how can i block certain things out in this list but not block it out in my navigation. Basically i want the special offers to be removed from the list but not in my navigation