More than one product per line

[MarkBarrett]

Please can someone advise me how to show more than one product on a line?

This is a feature of one of Actinic's live example sites -

http://www.jewellery247.co.uk/acatal..._Rings_22.html

- but I can't see how to do it.

Does it mean playing with the source code?

I would appreciate any guidance on this, so thanks in advance.

Mark Barrett

[NormanRouxel]

I wrote the patch that does this. It's now in the Knowledge Base so look at http://knowledge.actinic.com/users/k...ails.html#a365 for details.

Norman

[MarkBarrett]

More than one product per line

Norman

That looks just great!!

I can't wait to give it a try.

I will back up the original text in case I do something wrong and need to get back to where I started.

I wonder if this patch will be built into a future version? - I noticed that one of Actinic's competitors allows multiple products per line as standard.

Anyway many thanks for this and for replying so promptly.

Mark Barrett

[MarkBarrett]

More than one product per line

Norman

That has worked a treat.

Can I pick your brains one last time please?

The code seems to generate quite a lot of space (padding?) above and below the productimage.

I would like the text which I have below the image a bit closer to it but I can't work out what creates that space.

Alternatively I tried to valign the image to the bottom of the cell but I couldn't make that work either.

If you can help me with this it will be "the icing on the cake."

Thanks

Mark Barrett

[NormanRouxel]

Sorry, I just wrote it. I don't actually use it myself so I am unable to see what you are seeing.

I'd try looking at the source of a generated page (or save the page locally and view it with Dreamweaver) and match up what you see with the code in Product and Image templates.

Norman

[MarkBarrett]

Norman

That's just the advice I needed.

As soon as I looked at the generated page in my HTML editor I could see that the unwanted space was not in the bottom of the image cell but at the top of the cell below (which has the Price in it.)

I took a look in Act_ProductPrice and found there was a break command in there producing the unwanted extra line.

So I now have my multiple columns and it all looks just how I want it to - thanks for getting me there!!

Mark Barrett

[solnet]

Multiple columns errors

I've tried using this code but get continuous error messages. This can be seen "in action" at www.shop4it.biz if you go to Forms, docs & templates | Personnel (which incidentally uses Norman's excellent menu code, thanks Norman!).

Any ideas why this isn't working properly, anyone?

[cdicken]

Have you definitely created the two custom properties and put values for them in 'Design | Options | Shop Defaults'?

Maybe you could zip up your edited Act_ProductBody and Act_ProductLine and attach them here.

[solnet]

Zip file

Chris,

Yeah, both the CUSTOMVARS are in the right place and are set. I've attached the Zip file as requested. Incidentally, since making these changes I've also been getting an error message whenever I do a full site preview stating that the configuration variable DISCOUNTINFOBULK was not found in the HTML templates. I assume that this is because the code was originally written for v6 and not v7. If (when!) I get this working, is it going to be ok to just drop NETQUOTEVARISCOUNTINFOBULK back in there?

Regards


Patrick

[solnet]

Ahem!

OK, so here's the Zip file

[cdicken]

You're right. It is only one custom property.

But the problem is that it is NUMCOLS rather than NUMSCOLS - if you remove the 'S' in the middle you should be fine.

And you can get v7 code from HERE

[NormanRouxel]

There's a slightly more up-to-date V7 patch on www.drillpine.biz/actinicstuff/

Norman

[solnet]

Still plagued by errors

Hi guys,

I'm afraid that neither of those patches worked. I'm uploading the changes so you can see it online - if you have time to take a look.

Regards


Patrick

[cdicken]

Ignore my previous post - I was getting confused (easily done)

Right - your code looks fine. Your problem is that your value for CUSTOMVAR:NUMCOLS is mot making it into the HTML.

e.g. your code says

<script language=JavaScript>
<!--
if ( currentcol != 0 )
 {
 while ( currentcol++ <  ) document.write('<td width="' + colwidth + '%">&nbsp;</td>');
 document.write('</tr></table></td></tr>');
 currentcol = 0;
 }
// -->
</script>

and in the template it is

<script language=JavaScript>
<!--
if ( currentcol != 0 )
 {
 while ( currentcol++ < CUSTOMVAR:NUMCOLS ) document.write('<td width="' + colwidth + '%">&nbsp;</td>');
 document.write('</tr></table></td></tr>');
 currentcol = 0;
 }
// -->
</script>

Please check that 'Use as CUSTOMVAR' is selected in the NUMCOLS row in 'Design | Options | Site Defaults'.

[solnet]

Embarrassed relief

Chris,

Thanks for that - it's solved the problem.

The embarrassing thing is, I already knew that - my excuse is that I haven't used CUSTOMVARS for a while and forgot about that...

Once again, many thanks.