Help with Section Layout

[AndyBorrett]

I am in the process of rewriting our site (www.seriouslysilver.co.uk) using version 9 Business and will be going down the One Product per page route.

In our current V7 site we have a section - say Bracelets - that has all the Bracelets in it split into several pages. The same bracelets are in other sections of the store too - say Amber. I did this by creating product duplicates in the relevant sections.

There doesn't seem to be a way of having a section duplicate in the same way as a product duplicate so what is the preferred way of achieving this without having to manually create a section for every duplicate?

I am intending to have these duplicate sections within the Bracelets section similar to a filter. The user would click on the Bracelets section and be taken to 'All' Bracelets. If they just wish to see the Amber bracelets they would click on Amber in the left hand sidebar.

Any pointers as to where to start?

[jont]

There doesn't seem to be a way of having a section duplicate in the same way as a product duplicate so what is the preferred way of achieving this without having to manually create a section for every duplicate?

A section is a page on the internet - as each page needs a unique name there is no ability to "duplicate" sections.

Take a look at http://www.codepath.co.uk/actinic_plugins.htm for an automated route in creating sections / products etc

[AndyBorrett]

I thought Actinic may have had the ability to rename the section slightly - maybe add a prefix or suffix.

As it looks like there isn't an 'off the shelf' way of doing what I want I have come up with the following code patched together from Gabriels Block Tutorials.

<div>
<actinic:block type="EntireSectionList" >
<actinic:block type="ProductList" >
	<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22GabrielsDeals%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20true" >
	<img src="<actinic:variable name="ProductImageFileName" />" width="120" alt="<actinic:variable name="ProductName" />" border="0" 

/><br>
	<a href="<actinic:variable name="SearchCGIURL" />?PRODREF=<actinic:variable name="ProductReference" 

/>&amp;NOLOGIN=1<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsHostMode%22%20%2f%3e">&amp;SHOP=<actinic:variable name="ShopID" 

/></actinic:block>">
	<Actinic:Variable Name="ProductName"/>
	</a><br>
	<br>

	</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>	
</actinic:block>
</div>

Do any experts out there know how I can put this into a table rather than a list? I have tried putting the code in various parts of a table but can't work out which bits go where.

[Duncan Rounding]

I may have misunderstood but...
You really only want to have one final single product page - not duplicates in their own single pages. Create sections as before with cut down product duplicates and then link through from those products to the main product's single page. Duplicating single pages will very likely mean that only one page will get indexed due to the duplicated content.

For filtering you may also consider have a product scoped CV specific to the filter word and then creating a search link that will return the relevant products.

[AndyBorrett]

Thanks for advice.

I have now added a text variable called 'SilverStyle' and given it two choices - Modern and Chunky

I have placed the following code into the section page layout which checks to see if SilverStyle is set to Modern then displays the relevant items on the page.

<div>
<actinic:block type="EntireSectionList" >
<actinic:block type="ProductList" >
	<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22SilverStyle%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20Modern" >
			<img src="<actinic:variable name="ProductImageFileName" />" width="75" alt="<actinic:variable name="ProductName" />" border="0" /><br>
	<a href="<actinic:variable name="SearchCGIURL" />?PRODREF=<actinic:variable name="ProductReference" />&amp;NOLOGIN=1<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsHostMode%22%20%2f%3e">&amp;SHOP=<actinic:variable name="ShopID" /></actinic:block>">
	<Actinic:Variable Name="ProductName"/>
	</a><br>

	</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>	
</actinic:block>
</div>

The problem is that I can't manage to display the results in a table so it looks the same as the 'non filtered' section. I presume I have to do something with the List Layout Settings but I can't get my head around it.

I will have a look at using a search link instead as you suggest