Product Paging - Limiting products displayed in section

[mediamole]

Hi

I realise you can achieve COL displays for products, but i was wondering if it's possible to achieve paging. Whereby I can state how many products are viewed per page? with a next button to display the next 10 etc?

[Bruce]

Hi,

This is covered in the Advanced Users Guide. Page 16. The work around is to create a main section with sub-sections having an x number of products.

Creating Links to 'Previous' and 'Next' Sections

This exercise will create links to 'previous' and 'next' sections (i.e. sections at the same level in the store – sometimes known as 'sibling sections').
Include content similar to the following within the overall layout (primary) template for a section where you want the links to appear:
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td><a href="NETQUOTEVAR:PREV_SECTION_URL">NETQUOTEVAR:PREV_SECTION_NAME</a></td>
<td align="right"><a href="NETQUOTEVAR:NEXT_SECTION_URL">NETQUOTEVAR:NEXT_SECTION_NAME</a></td>
</tr>
</table>

Kind regards,

[mediamole]

Re.

Hi Bruce

Thanks for your help.

I just need to be clear on something. Are you saying it is possible to set a setting within Actinic whereby I say only 10 products can be displayed within a section at a single time?

My content tree in Actinic 7 Developer looks like this:

Section
Sub Section
Product 1
Product 2
... etc

Section
Sub Section
Product 1
Product 2

Whereby in some sub sections there are over 60 products. Due to the design to be used, the content tree has to be structure this way

http://www.testmole.co.uk/acatalog

Could you advise if your suggestion is still possible based on this structure?

[cdicken]

Are you saying it is possible to set a setting within Actinic whereby I say only 10 products can be displayed within a section at a single time?

No - this isn't possible. You need to manually create sub-sections filled with 10 products each, and then insert Bruce's next/previous links into the design to allow customers to go from section to section.

[mediamole]

Re.

But what if I dont want to display the sub sections? and only the products contained within the sub sections - is this possible?

[cdicken]

No - I'm sorry. Actinic generates static html pages - these are the sections/sub-sections in your store. You need to place the products in each section so you have the correct number of products in each section.

The structure to use would be

Section
Sub Section 1
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
Product 4
Sub Section 2 (a)
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
Product 4
Sub Section 2 (b)
Product 5
Product 6
Sub Section 3
Product 1
Product 2
etc. etc.


or

Section
...
Sub Section 2
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
Product 4
Sub Sub Section 2 (a)
Product 5
Product 6
Product 7
Product 8
Sub Sub Section 2 (b)
Product 9
Product 10
...