I product per section redesign question

[jxm28788]

Just one little problem with this method - if you search for the item on the site it appears twice in the results list.

Given that some of my items fit into groups of 5 or 6 with similar names a partial search brings back 10-12 results...

I have turned off 'searchable' for the customvars, but it still finds the duplicate by product name. Is there any way to prevent this?

[Duncan Rounding]

Yes, I exclude all my duplicates from the search.
View|Search Settings - Search Options - Indexing Options - uncheck Index Product Duplicates.
I also exlcude product duplicates from my Froogel Feed so that the Froogle link always takes the searcher directly to the detailed product page.

[jxm28788]

nice one, that's exactly what I wanted to do!

[Ghome1971]

I hope it is okay to ask something related to this topic

I would like to show additional images at the bottom of my one product per page eg other customers have purchased ... or you may also be interested ...

How do I modify my Section template to do this

Please reply with simple instructions as I can find templates and cut and paste text but note much else!

Thanks

Geraldine

www.stardustkids.co.uk

[jxm28788]

Norman has an add on to do that - Try this thread - http://community.actinic.com/showthr...ghlight=upsell

[Duncan Rounding]

The simplest and cheapest way to do this is just to add a fragment to the section containing the links, images and info you want - unfortunately the trade off is the extra work to maintain the fragments.
Such as: http://www.fancylines.co.uk/acatalog...nd_Choker.html (Note: Adult Lingerie Site)

For a more automated solution search the forum for 'upsell' or 'related products' or such like.

[jxm28788]

uh-oh. My duplicates 'add to cart' buttons are broken. Now I get -

A General Script Error Occurred
Error: (ProductName)
Invalid order details

Any ideas what I screwed up to get that error? The main product 'add to cart' button is still ok.

[Ghome1971]

great - I will contact him

Geraldine

[jxm28788]

ah, got it. had commented out these lines, one of which I guess is kind of important...

NETQUOTEVAR:CARTERRORXMLNETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTQUANTITY<br>

[Luddite]

Coincedence, or a job well done?

Had a sale this morning that included the only 2 products that we've 'upgraded' to 1 prod per section'. So, either it was a complete fluke, or I need to do the rest of the site asap!!
Nick

[Buzby]

I use a single product per section also - with parent sections containing duplicate products with short descriptions and smaller pictures etc.
To be able to click on the duplicate (image or link) then what I do is as follows:
For the text link -
I put [LINK] in the description and then configure an Advanced Link with some link text to the product.
For the image link -
I have modified my Act_ProductLine template where:

NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTBEGINLINKNETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE

is changed to

<A HREF =http://www.mydomain.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?PRODREF=NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE&NOLOGIN=1 TARGET="_self">
NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTBEGINLINKNETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE 
</A>

You can see an example here:
http://www.fancylines.co.uk/acatalog/Corsets.html
Note: Adult Lingerie Site

Am I right in thinking that if I make the changes above but do not delete
NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTBEGINLINK
so replace it with

A HREF =http://www.mydomain.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?PRODREF=NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE&NOLOGIN=1 TARGET="_self">
NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTIMAGE
</A>

Will this just make the image link go through the CGI Bin and allow the text link to go to a direct url so that search engines can still follow.

Many thanks

Jason

[Duncan Rounding]

Possibly - you'd have to give a go and see.
So long as you include a link to your sitemap (at least on your home page if not on every page) then SEs will be able to find their way around and index your site.

[antnb]

I've been trying this one product per section method in the smart theme as a way to link to products from different sections, ie by designer, and then duplicate products sectioned by item (footwear, clothing etc), then a new section, and a sale item section

The Store Section list shows Sections and subsections, but where I have listed the products as individual subsection/product, it lists all these as well.

I did this to hide subsections:

Go to 'Design | Options | Layouts' and click 'Edit' next to the 'Default Overall Layout' field.

Look for where it says:
Code:

<script language=Javascript1.2> document.write(YahooSections(section_tree)) </script>

and change 'section_tree' to 'sections'.

Now go into the <head> section and locate

<!--@act NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONTREE_RAW -->

change this to

<!--@act NETQUOTEVAR:TOPLEVELSECTIONS_RAW -->

but of course it hides all the subsections and I only want to hide the original product subsections list that I am linking to from the duplicate products in other sections.

Is there a way to hide the original product per section list in the section tree?

On another point, I switched off the tree that shows at the centre top of each page and can't remember how to switch it back on! Where is the tick box for it?

[wjcampbe]

There are acouple of old posts about showing only the content of the current page and it's subsections - perhaps this might help you?

The "tree" at the top - could you be talking about the breadcrumbs?

[antnb]

The tree = breadcrumbs, I wondered what people were refering to. Design /options/sections/Parent section Links/None or top etc
- thats where they were.

Thanks