Product information - In a Section Parent

[auztin100]

Hi,

Basically my layout is a section list with images above text, 3x3.

1 section for 1 product.

The section text underneath the image, has a price of the product within the section. At the moment this price is 'hard coded'.

Is there a way of changing the section layout to read the product price, rather than hard coded ?

Thanks for your help.

Austin.

[pinbrook]

yep, here you go....


http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=30435

[auztin100]

That would be for version 8 ?? how would this look in Version 7 -

<actinic:block type="ProductList" >
<actinic:block type="PriceList" >
<actinic:variable name="PriceLayout" />
</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>

.....

My current section link layout ...

<!-- SectionLine HTML begin -->
<!-- Insert HTML for the beginning of a section title -->

<DIV ALIGN="LEFT">

<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="10">

	<TR>

		<TD class="homebox" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="middle">
			<A HREF="NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONLINK">NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONIMAGE</A>
		</TD>

		<TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="MIDDLE" rowspan="2">
		</TD>

	</TR>

	<TR>

		<TD ALIGN="center" VALIGN="middle">
            <p align="center"><span class="actAuz2">
			<A HREF="NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONLINK"><B>NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONNAME</B></A>
			<br></span>

		</TD>

	</TR>

</TABLE>

</DIV>
NETQUOTEVAR:NEXT
<!-- Insert HTML for the end of a section title -->
<!-- SectionLine HTML end -->

[Duncan Rounding]

The easiest way to do this in v7 would be to use cut down product duplicates placed in the parent section instead of showing the section links.

[auztin100]

Thanks, but could you expand a little on this, and explain in a little more detail ?

[Duncan Rounding]

YOu will probably have a structure like this:

Section 1
Section 1a
-Product 1a
Section 1b
-Product 1b
Section 2
Section 2a
-Product 2a
etc

So place duplicates of Products 1a and 1b in Section 1 etc. Then you can remove the Section links in Section 1 that link to Section 1a and 1b because the duplicates can be configured to click through to the main product.

There's a lot of information about SIngle Product Per Page on the forum - even for v7.
Try this one for starters:
http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=17511

[NormanRouxel]

If you've a lot of free time to tinker, then Duncan's solution will work.

However, if your time is valuable then there's a compelling reason to upgrade to V9. What you want to do will be easy (the price on the Section libk will become automatic, rather than having to be hand coded for instance) and you'll also gain the benefit of the extra marketing features (Related Product / Best Sellers, etc).

It may be a good bit of work going to V9 but everything will be automatic after that. You can download a free trial and tinker for a month without changing your existing V7 site.

[auztin100]

Thank you,

I have now upgrade and am using the above mod

I have a new question, can a similar blocking method be used to get the Product Image ?

Thanks ...

[leehack]

Create and add section images instead, the product image will probably be too big to use.

[auztin100]

Maybe I should explain more ... I want both the section image and product image on the same page ... so a list of section images, and I'm going to add a rollover to show the product image and price on another part of the page, so I need to access other product information.

[leehack]

Ah right with you now, unless you use Javascript, the only way i can think you could do this is to have your section listing alongside product listing on the same page, but that would result in numerous pages all looking the same and each click would be taking you to a new page, rather than hovering over and a dynamic change.

However, Norman's multi-image addon does something along the same lines in that you hover over the thumbnails and the main product image changes. At what it costs to buy that off him, why not buy that and use that as a starting point or at least take a look see if you can use that functionality instead. There is also a multi choice addon I believe, which again changes the main image.

[auztin100]

Thanks Lee,

http://www.paradoxlondon.com/Pink/Shoes.htm

What I want to acheive is above, and so far I have this

http://www.1stforbridalshoes.co.uk/a...ollection.html

Generated from actinic.

This method uses an iframe, loading html pages into the frame on click ...

So perhaps I could create a new template for a product which is just the image and price etc on the page ... and then change the sectionlayout to reference the page name ... hmmm...