Sections and Subsections displayed together

[Steven Barkess]

Hello

Now that I have been playing around with the number of products displayed per page, I have created an additional page that from a user point of view is not necessary.

I have a section top, then a sub section, then sub sub sections. FOr example, I have

Section: Forthcoming
Sub section: Singles (which will also include albums in the future)
Sub Sub section: products 1-20, 21-40

From my index page I link into the page 1-20 which is fine. But when a customer comes out and is at the store top, they then have several steps to get back into the product listing page.

So, on the Sub section page (ie Singles), is it possible to display the Sub sections here too (ie 1-20, 21-40 etc). By doing this, i remove one step of the process.

I am using NorCascade too, and this is rahter friendly since you can navigate directly to where you want to go.

Thanks for advice

Steven

[Mike Hughes]

The answer is probably yes.

I don't use this so I'm not sure which one it is, but if you go to design>options>sections there are a number of choices there.

I think you probably want to tick one of the boxes under "location and arrangement of top level section list". Try each one and see what it does on a page preview.

Mike

[Steven Barkess]

Hi

I have had a play around with this but alas cannot create the desired affect.

What I am looking for is on the same page

Subsection
Sub subsection
Sub subsection

for example

Forthcoming
1-20
21-38

My section pages are based on Act_Pimary but have have created a seperate page this becoming Act_PrimaryFrontPageSubSection.

Looking in this there is NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONLIST and NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONLISTBOTTOM. I assume these define was displayed on the page, can I add in a SUBSECTIONLIST or other Netquotevar if this is no none starter?

I agree, this must be possible but how, who knows, it is a mystery.

Thanks
Steven

[s-j-r]

Steven,

Is this your use of Norcascade that you want to change or a more general issue.

One way to do this is to use the Javascript section and subsection names that Actinic will build if you uncomment one of the generator lines - I am sure this is covered in the Advanced guide.

Steve

[Mike Hughes]

Unless I'm missing something what you need to do is tick the box marked 'include in front page' AND the box marked 'include in all except the front page'.

This will display the sub sections of whatever section the person is in at that time.

Mike

PS. If you include a parent section list then they'll also be able to go back up the hierarchy a single step at a time.

[Steven Barkess]

Hi
Ok, almost there...

I have taken code as detialed on page 36 of the advanced user guide (Creating a bulletted List containing the top level sections and sub sections).

This is where I am at...

http://www.xxxx.co.uk/acatalog/store_catalogue.html

Now, in this case, all i want to do is show details in the Catalogue, and not show the Forthcoming.

Taking a step back, if you click on 'Store' (the one just above, with an arrow to the right of it), this takes you to my store top. Now in here, it details 2 sections - Forthcoming, and Catalogue. Clicking on either one, I want to go forward a page and in here only show the subsections (as per link above) for that section, and not the whole store tree. This ofcouse changes depending on the section that you went into in the first place!

If I can just show the sebsections relating to the specific Section, then I will be happy!!

THanks for continued advice.

Steven

[cdicken]

All I can suggest is manually editing the 'Act_section_tree.js' file on your server to remove the details of the 'forthcoming' sections.

Then in your overall layout template (Act_Primary.html) replace

<!--@act NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONTREE_RAW -->

with

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="Act_section_tree.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>

That way, the *.js file will not be updated with new data whenever you add a new product. It will stay showing just what you have got at the moment.