splitting the catalog

[SUBTRONIKSCOUK]

hope someone can help me... is it possible to get actinic v5 to split the pages when there are more than say, 50 products to display. 150 products on 3 pages.....

[garyhay]

I think you have to do this manually

Make the products 50-100 and 100-150 subsections of the first section and hardcode a link to these pages.

V6 lets you provide back and next links

[SUBTRONIKSCOUK]

im using excel to create the file that i import into Actinic.

if i set up the sub-sections in excel i cant import it.- the import allows section name - but no sub-section name.

I can do this in actinic but id still like to keep my data in excel where i can print stock lists easily.

Also, if i have say, 10 items @ £10 each, in the product listing it says that the item cost is £100. anyone any ideas.

Hope someone can help

thanks

[pinbrook]

What makes you think you can't import sub-sections?

in older versions you had to put | between the section names (key to the left of z)

ie section|sub-section1|subsection2

I am not aware that this has changed....look at the sample csv import file supplied by actinic (it uses |)

[cdicken]

V6 lets you provide back and next links

You can do it in v5 as well. Include the following code in Act_Primary, Act_Header or Act_ProductBody to include Next/Previous section links in Actinic.

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td><a href="NETQUOTEVAR:PREV_SECTION_URL">
NETQUOTEVAR:PREV_SECTION_NAME
</a>
</td>
<td align="right">
<a href="NETQUOTEVAR:NEXT_SECTION_URL">
NETQUOTEVAR:NEXT_SECTION_NAME
</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

[pinbrook]

i am trying to implement the code above in V5. I've pasted the code ok.

I assume this code will allow me to have 100 items in a section with a next/previous after each 10

but what else do I need to know?

should I structure my sections in a particular way?
how many products appear before the next /prevoius comes into play?

[cdicken]

You still have to split your large section in to a number of sub-sections. It is just the code above, when pasted into an Overall Layout (Primary) Template will take customers from one sub-section to another, horizontally, through the structure of the store.

[pinbrook]

Hi Chris

I got this to work....after a fashion in V5.

When I pasted the code into act-primary I didn't see any next/previous links, so I took it out of Act_primary and put it into act_header and it worked.....with one problem it shows sections which are hidden.

ie sections which are marked as Hide on Website have a previous or next link! No thank you...:p