Click Duplicate Product Image to go to Original Product Section Page

[Duncan Rounding]

My shop is setup so that each product has it's own section and a duplicate of each product is in a parent section that shows many products but with smaller images, less details and also laid out in a table.

Much like this:
Section1
-SubSection1.1
--Product1
-SubSection1.2
--Product2
-SubSection1.3
--Product3
Duplicate of Product1
Duplicate of Product2
Duplicate of Product3

I would like to be able to click on the product image of a duplicate to load the original product's section page. How can I do this?

TIA

Duncan R

[eternalnomad]

Hi,

the way I handled is as per below and it works fine

1) Create a custom property "SITE_URL"
2) Assign the value to SITE_URL of "http://localhost/" (without the quotes)
3) edit my template, in my case Act_ProductLine.html and put

...
<A HREF = CUSTOMVAR:SITE_URLcgi-bin/ss000006.pl?PRODREF=NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE&NOLOGIN=1 TARGET="_self">
NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTTHUMBNAILIMAGE
</A>

....

The reason I use the custom property is because it makes it easier when I upload between my local development pc (http://localhost/)and my real site(http://whatever/)

Only issue I can think of with this approach is having to hard code the cgi script ID (in my case 6) into ss000006.pl

Does anyody know of a variable that provides the cgi script id ?

Perhaps other people know of more efficent way of acheiving the same result ? - if so please post as I would also like to use !!

[Duncan Rounding]

Great thanks for that Mark - I'll give it a go.

Couldn't I also include more of the path in the CustomVAR and set it to:
"http://mysite/cgi-bin/ss000006.pl?"
for example.

Duncan R

[eternalnomad]

Yes - I dont see any reason why not

You could even "hardcode" the full path into your template file but this would means having to "mess-around" when you moved from a development site to your main site

[Duncan Rounding]

Another thing......

This works (I just hard coded to test) but I don't want my original product images to be clickable as well. Modifying the Act_ProductLine template affects these as well of course.

Is there a way to use a different Act_ProductLine template on the originals than the duplicates?

Duncan

[wjcampbe]

Just select the alternate template against Product Layout on the layout tab for the original product.

[Duncan Rounding]

Of course!
Sometimes I forget to look at the obvious.

Thanks Bill