Formatting search related pages

[edmorey]

Advice regarding formatting the following search related matters would be gratefully received...

1) When a search fails, the message "No matching products were found" is displayed. I can see where to edit the message however it is not so clear where to format the style of the message - any ideas?

2) On the search.html page I need to format the layout by applying 'class=""actxxsmall'' tags to the various page elements. I have done this successfully for everything except NETQUOTEVAR:PRICERANGECONTROL and NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONCONTROL - looking at the Advanced Users Guide it suggests these are NOT templated. What can I do to format these?

3) I wish to edit ACT_RESULTSTEMPLATE.HTML to display the product image instead of the product thumbnail. I can see in this template the placeholder for NETQUOTEVAR:THUMBNAIL - what do I need to replace this with to display the product image instead?

Thanks
Ed

[cdicken]

1) When a search fails, the message "No matching products were found" is displayed. I can see where to edit the message however it is not so clear where to format the style of the message - any ideas?

You can enter your own HTML tags directly into the fields in 'Design | Text'. Otherwise the formatting of that message comes from 'Design | Text' Phase: -1 ID: 1962 before it and ID: 1970 after it.

2) On the search.html page I need to format the layout by applying 'class=""actxxsmall'' tags to the various page elements. I have done this successfully for everything except NETQUOTEVAR:PRICERANGECONTROL and NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONCONTROL - looking at the Advanced Users Guide it suggests these are NOT templated. What can I do to format these?

These are all in 'Design | Text'. Check out p122 of the latest v7 Advanced User Guide.

3) I wish to edit ACT_RESULTSTEMPLATE.HTML to display the product image instead of the product thumbnail. I can see in this template the placeholder for NETQUOTEVAR:THUMBNAIL - what do I need to replace this with to display the product image instead?

If you don't use a thumbnail image field for a product, Actinic will automatically use the main product image.

[edmorey]

Hi Chris

Your answers to questions 1 + 2 are spot on thanks.

Regarding 3 - I'd like to use thumbnails in the cart therefore I need to define a thumbnail. Therefore leaving the thumbnail field blank is not an option for me.

Any other ideas?

Ed

[cdicken]

I'm afraid the Actinic solution for the search image is only ever the thumbnail (when specified).

Norman Rouxel has a patch for displaying the basic product image in the search results.

http://www.drillpine.biz/actinicstuff/index.html

[Jonny]

Lost thumbnails

Hi there,

I've got a related but slightly different problem. I decided to omit images from search results at an early stage in the development of a site, but I have since changed my plan and I now want to use thumbnails.

Having added in paths to the thumbnail images in Actinic 7, I found that thumbnails were still not appearing in the search results. I'm wondering if I might have deleted some vital code from Act_ResultsTemplate.html. All I've got currently is:

<Actinic:XMLTEMPLATE NAME="ImageLine">
<IMG SRC="NETQUOTEVAR:THUMBNAIL" NETQUOTEVAR:THUMBNAILSIZE>
</Actinic:XMLTEMPLATE>

Maybe there is something essential missing from page header to make this work? Currently it does nothing. Can anyone assist?

Jon

[cdicken]

Can I see a URL which demonstrates the problem?

As a suggestion, back up your current Act_ResultsTemplate.html and then copy in a new one from 'Formats\Themes\BusinessCSS'. Do the images appear? If not, check your settings in 'View | Search Settings | Results'.

[Jonny]

Thanks, Chris

I had already tried going back to a generic version of the file and ruled that out before posting yesterday. But you were spot on with your second (and seemingly obvious) suggestion - I had switched images off in the search results settings! D'oh!
Jon