Displaying Price in Section Link

[JSnow]

Could somebody please help.

Is it possible to display the product price in the SectionLink? At present, my sectionlink mearly displays a product image and title. It would be ideal to display the price as well.

Thanks

[jont]

I still don't think this is possible as a section could contain many products so it would not know which price to use.. hence in v7 it was always manually entered.

The v8 trick is to set the products as duplicate to replicate section layouts and link back to the product proper once clicked ... seem to recall Duncan (drounding) had some code for this at the early days of the v8 forum

[los_design]

Could somebody please help.

Is it possible to display the product price in the SectionLink? At present, my sectionlink mearly displays a product image and title. It would be ideal to display the price as well.

Thanks

It can be done, but it is not as simple as adding a variable and away you go.

You can create a layout and add to cart and as jonty rightly points out, you can then either a) use the extended info page to display more details (not good for seo tho) or b) duplicate the product etc...

HTH

[mediacat]

<actinic:block type="ProductList" >
<actinic:block type="PriceList" >
<actinic:variable name="PriceLayout" />
</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>

seems to do the trick for me within my section layout, please note this is base on 1 product per section.

[dave_finlayson]

<actinic:block type="ProductList" >
<actinic:block type="PriceList" >
<actinic:variable name="PriceLayout" />
</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>

This seems to work, which upsets me greatly as we have always typed them in after being reliably assured by Actinic it could not be done. Thank you Ben for being cleverer than Actinic!!!

Will have a greater look later to double check it works ok for us and report back.

[jont]

Have not tried yet but nice one

[JSnow]

Bam!!!!

And there it is... The Meaning Of Life!!!!

Thanks Ben, this worked like a charm.

Someone should make this a sticky!!!!

[dave_finlayson]

Agrred, it should also be added to the AUG with haste, will at least save some people days and days of work!

[TraceyHand]

damn...I spent flipping ages trying to do that yesterday!
why didn't I see this thread!!?

*adds to her to-do list*

[mediacat]

And there it is... The Meaning Of Life!!!!

More like the circle of Actinic Life. The community's helped me lots in the past, its about time to give something back.

[JSnow]

And it would appear that it is now my turn...

The following will place an add to cart button into the section link without the need for all the product duplicates etc. It also adds the first ten words of the full description to the section link.

NOTE: It only works if you have a single product per page.

EDIT...

[JSnow]

I'd love to know how to encapsulate that into a scroll bar window as I have seen in other posts.

[pinbrook]

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsProductFormUsed%22%20%2f%3e">
<form method="post" action="<actinic:variable name="OnlineScriptURL" value="Shopping Cart Script URL" />">
<input type="hidden" name="SID" value="<Actinic:Variable Name="SectionID"/>" />
<input type="hidden" name="PAGE" value="PRODUCT" />
<input type="hidden" name="PAGEFILENAME" value="<actinic:variable name="SectionPageName" />" />
<Actinic:SECTION BLOB='<Actinic:Variable Name="SectionCatFile"/>'/>
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsHostMode%22%20%2f%3e">
<!-- Hidden field when in trial mode -->
<input type="hidden" name="SHOP" value="<Actinic:Variable Name="HiddenFields"/>" />
</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>

<div class="product_list">
<div class="image_product"><a href="<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20AND%0d%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e" ><actinic:variable name="SectionPageName" /></actinic:block><actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29%20OR%0d%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29" ><actinic:variable name="SectionURL" /></actinic:block>" target="_self"><img alt="<actinic:variable name="SectionName" encoding="strip"/>" src="<actinic:variable Name="SectionImageFileName"/>" border="0" /></a></div>
<div><h3 class="product"><a href="<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20AND%0d%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e" ><actinic:variable name="SectionPageName" /></actinic:block><actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29%20OR%0d%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29" ><actinic:variable name="SectionURL" /></actinic:block>" target="_self"><span style="color:<actinic:variable name="Palette2" />"><actinic:variable name='SectionName'/></span></a></h3></div>
<actinic:block type="ProductList" >
<div style="float: right;">
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsAddToCartButtonShown%22%20%2f%3e%20AND%20%0d%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22NumberAttributesInPushButtonGrid%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%200%29" >
<actinic:variable name="AddToCartButton" /><br>
<span class="actrequired"><Actinic:Variable Name="QuantityPrompt"/></span><br>
<input type="text" name="Q_<Actinic:Variable Name="ProductReference"/>" size="4" value="<Actinic:Variable Name="DefaultQuantity"/>" class="form_input_general" />
</actinic:block>
</div>
<actinic:block type="PriceList" >
<b><actinic:variable name="PriceLayout" /></b><br><br>
</actinic:block>
<actinic:block php="true" >
$sShort = "";
$nCount = 0;
$sOriginal = '<actinic:variable encoding="perl" name="ProductDescription" selectable="false" />';
foreach(explode(" ", $sOriginal) as $sWord)
{
if ($nCount > 10)
{
$sShort .= "...";
break;
}
$sShort .= $sWord . " ";
$nCount++;
}
echo $sShort;
</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>
<br><a href="<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20AND%0d%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e" ><actinic:variable name="SectionPageName" /></actinic:block><actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsLoginPageSuppressed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29%20OR%0d%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22UnregCustomersAreNotAllowed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false%29" ><actinic:variable name="SectionURL" /></actinic:block>" target="_self">More Info...</a>
</div>

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsProductFormUsed%22%20%2f%3e">
</form>
</actinic:block>

Now this is very interesting, thanks for posting it.

I've been playing about with it with a view to making a few modes to fit in with my design, I'm wondering what I need to do to remove the quantity box, I've tried the obvious hack of removing the

<span class="actrequired"><Actinic:Variable Name="QuantityPrompt"/></span><br>
<input type="text" name="Q_<Actinic:Variable Name="ProductReference"/>" size="4" value="<Actinic:Variable Name="DefaultQuantity"/>" class="form_input_general" />

but it breaks the code

[wjcampbe]

how about removing the prompt value and using input type=hidden?

[pinbrook]

Bill's idea works if you don't want the quantity.

Back to JSnow's code, if you have a structure of

section ie online catalog
section (books)
subsection (great expectations)
product (great expectations)
sub section (pride and predjudice)
product (pride and predjudice)

you will need to either define another section layout or revert to section description as you will loose section description as books level.

But its a neat bit of coding