brochure pages

[Jenny]

Hi, I have sort of ignored brochure pages but now the client wants a site that he can update both! Has anybody managed to create a home page that has info text on say the left, a top five sellers box top right in text area, blurb below, all that can be updated by him. Can this be done, has anybody got any examples I could look at, bright ideas, ( want to do it for £10)?
Anything. Timescales yesterday..
Jenny

[cdicken]

Well, here's the bad news. There are not many variables that work in brochure overall layout templates. The only ones that do are:

NETQUOTEVAR:PAGETITLE
NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERMETA
NETQUOTEVAR:BGIMAGE
NETQUOTEVAR:BGCOLOR
NETQUOTEVAR:FGCOLOR
NETQUOTEVAR:LINKCOLOR
NETQUOTEVAR:VLINKCOLOR
NETQUOTEVAR:ALINKCOLOR
NETQUOTEVAR:BROCHURELOGO
NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERGUIDE
NETQUOTEVAR:BROCHUREBODY

This means that most of the design elements you talk about have to be done outside of Actinic.

But once you get the overall layout template looking nice, it is then quite simple to knock together some good looking brochure fragments (they are easier than products) for your customer to add their own data to the bulk of the page.

[Jenny]

Chris
if you create a fragment eg top5, can it coded so so that fragment by using netquotevar:fragmentname, always appears in a certain place on the template, eg set top right
I am making this up as I go now.
Jenny

[NormanRouxel]

I was tinkering with getting a top 3 products onto the brochure page recently (complete with product details and cartbutton, etc) and came up with this.

There were some wierd caching issues and I'm nor a server guru so someone else who is might like to help by checking this out.

Norman

[Jenny]

I have seen how you can set variables of top1, top2 etc and link those.. Jenny

[Jenny]

I thought if I created customvars, I could hard code those into the brochure template. fine but how do I and where do can I define them so the client can update them! any ideas?
Jenny

[cdicken]

Custom properties can only be defined for brochure pages within 'Design Options | Site Defaults'. There is no way to define custom properties for brochure pages or fragments sadly.

[Jenny]

By creating 2 custom vars/per top (x) listing Within brochure template, having set them out in a table, once defined under Design Options | defaults I can set this up.
Jenny