Adding "suggested" products

[Christylh]

Is there any way to add suggested products to a catalog page? Like for example, a thumbnail suggesting to add a stethoscope or pair of EMT scissors when someone is buying a rescue parka on our site.

You know what I'm talking about, blatant product pushing but it works for the big guys.

Thanks!

Christy

[NormanRouxel]

You can add these product as optional Components, linked to an associated Product. You can have several if you want. See the help file for info on components.

Actinic doesn't show a picture for these additional items but it's not too difficult to add one in as below

If you also want to show a thumbnail picture of that component then you could add the code for it's image into the HTML for Name field of the component.

E.g. You already have a Product called Widget and it already has an image widget.jpg. When building the main product where ou want to upsell a widget then create a Component, link it to Associated Product Widget and in it's HTML for Name field put something like

Widget (£7.50) <img src="widget.jpg" width=100 height=100>

Norman

[Minute Man]

Had some trouble with this suggestion.

I also wanted to include up sell items. When I followed your suggestion, I ended up with a small 100 x 100 box with nothing in it but a smaller box and a red x in it. What did I do wrong?

Thanks

[Gill]

You haven't done anything wrong. There's just something extra you need to do.

In Norman's directions, Actinic assumes the widget.jpg is in the same directory as the component. If it's in a different directory you need to put the path before widget.jpg or copy the file in to the directory where the component is found. The small box with the red cross is just a way of saying 'picture not found'.

[NormanRouxel]

As long as you have a product that's using widget.jpg as its picture then Actinic will upload that image. So the image will be found on your live site.

I'm guessing that it didn't work for you when you did a Preview. The easiest way to fix this is to put a copy of all these images into your PreviewHTML folder.

Finally the width=100 height=100 has to be altered to suit the size of the images your using. Alternatively you can leave out the entire width=100 height=100 and your images will be shown full-size. Alternatively use just (say) height=100 and all images will then be the same height and most modern browsers will scale the width to suit.

Norman