related items

[wight]

Any one help with this.

We are using Cat Ver 7, and I am looking to be able to have related items to a produce.

For example, if a customer clicked on an ink cartridge, how would you be able to have under the item. "related items" paper etc, and if they clicked on printers, the related items would be cables, cartridges, paper etc etc.

This is killing me.

[I-CC]

Probably the most cost effective way would be to add custom properties to your product template, so...

<a href="CUSTOMVAR:RELATEDLINK01">CUSTOMVAR:RELATEDTEXT01</a> | <a href="CUSTOMVAR:RELATEDLINK02">CUSTOMVAR:RELATEDTEXT02</a>

Ensuring your add the new custom properties to the Advanced | Custom Properties feature, with text as the input mode.

Then, within the product concerned, click into its own Properties tab, and assign each property with the value you want to use, which in this case the releatedlink01 / 02 etc, would be the page filename associated with the product you want to link onto...

There are many other ways of achieving this, which can also be via the search script to jump to a product along the lines of the RELATEDLINK01 being something like:

../cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?PRODREF=abcdefgNOLOGIN=1

where you replace cgi-bin with where your online cgi-bin is located and named, replace 1 with what ever script ID you are using, and the abcdefg being the actual product reference assigned to the product you want to link to...

There are also a number of third party scripts connected with mySQL databases which prodvide a similar feature, but this one is all inhouse with no extra costs of those third party scripts and achieves the end aim...

Hope it helps.

[jont]

The 3rd party plug in is available at http://www.ecommerce.uk.com/actinic_...ross_sell.html - not tried personally but a lot of sites I have seen do use it effectively

[I-CC]

BTW: You could assign this at the section level for it to be used for all products within that and sub-sections that use your amended Product template with the new custom properties, but believe a buggy exists if you assign the same properties to a product within the section, which then means that other products beneath it within the same section has empty (as viewed preview/online) properties, so the default you assign in the section is then not shown for further products, but if assigning it once to the section and not referencing again in any products within that section, then all products would show it...

[Lisa Carey]

What I do is use the LINK facility in fragments.
So for each 'related' product, I create a new fragment (text only). Then use [LINK] in the text and select the product or section you want to link to from the Link tab. Simple!
Also, this way, if you inadvertantly create broken links by deleting a related product or section, Actinic will pick it up and alert you.
You can see this working at www.alanaecology.com with any product which has accessories eg. bat detector.
Hope this helps.