Section Problem

[Pneumatus]

Hi,

My current SectionLine for one of my sub-sections lists all of the section items in order like this:

Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Item 4
Item 5
Item 6
Item 7
Item 8
Item 9

I wish to split this into 3 columns but haven't been able to get the desired result. I can make the items follow this pattern:

Item 1 | Item 2 | Item 3
Item 4 | Item 5 | Item 6
Item 7 | Item 8 | Item 9

But what I want is to have them displayed like this:

Item 1 | Item 4 | Item 7
Item 2 | Item 5 | Item 8
Item 3 | Item 6 | Item 9

Is it possible to get Actinic to create section pages in this manner? If it is can someone indicate how it might be done.

Cheers

[garyhay]

I cant see any reason why it cant work like you wish but you will have to write the template file yourself.

[NormanRouxel]

It's tricky because the section structure is in a dynamically generated table and HTML tables really have to be generated row by row.

If you need to do this only for one or two sections why not just re-arrange them in the Catalog tree so that they appear where you want them using the default 3 column way.

Item 1 | Item 2 | Item 3
Item 4 | Item 5 | Item 6
Item 7 | Item 8 | Item 9

So you move your real Item 2 to the 4th position, item 3 to the 7th, etc. And hope that you never create/delete a section or you're off again...

Norman

[Pneumatus]

I would have done that but I don't just have 9 subsections - I have somewhere more along the lines of 30 / 40 so I don't want to have move *all* the produts about!

[garyhay]

It would take half an hour to shift the products about god knows how long to get the template written.

Normans solution is to me very simple and has the desired effect. A good old fudge, often very useful with Actinic