Section list as navigation

[chrishill]

I'd like to be able to list the product sections in a navigation bar to the left of the main content. I know its possible to get the header links (home, cart, checkout etc) to appear there with standard actinic templates, is it possible to list the sections instead?

[SureshB]

Hi Chris,

If Iam right, you want the Section link to appear in the Navigation bar, just like 'View Cart', 'Checkout', 'Home'. If you know the HTML page name of Sections, you can link them in Navigation bar.

To show the HTML page name for all the sections in Actinic:

Please go to 'View | Business Settings | Options | Miscellaneous Options', tick 'Show Page Names when editing Catalog' and Click OK.
Now, Edit Act_Primary.html and insert code like this (always take a backup of Act_Primary.html before editing)

<table>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.YourCompanyURL.com/Basic_Products.html">Section 1</a> </td>
<td><a href="http://www.YourCompanyURL.com/Products_With_Choices.html">Section 2</a></td>
<td><a href="http://www.YourCompanyURL.com/Choice_dependent_Pricing.html">Section 3</a></td>
</tr>
</table>


Save and preview the results.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

[chrishill]

thats close to what i wanted, but it needs to change as sections are added as the client wont be able to do any editing of the templates (lack of skill! )

What i want is, down the left of every page links like this...

------------
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5

Cart
Checkout
------------

Theres only a few products in the catalog so that list will never be very long, and it needs to update as more sections are added.

[SureshB]

Hi Chris,

We can insert 'NETQUOTEVAR:TOPLEVELSECTIONSTOP' in Act_Primary.html to bring Section link for Top-Level Sections. This automatically updates the newly added section names with the links.

Alternatively, we can use JavaScript to bring Top-Level Sections and Sub Sections as well.

Please refer to page number 32 of 'Advanced User Guide for V6', where we have more options on 'Including Section Lists with JavaScript'. You can download 'Advanced User Guide' from HERE.


Hope this helps.

Cheers,