I wish ...

[davidfarndon]

Actinic folks - a few ideas ..

.. please put on your list somewhere (if it's not there already) the ability to have related products in something other than a vertical list 1,2,3 etc., .. a grid, or multiple columns below the parent product and allow a teeny image and title / price only? with an 'add to cart' there and then rather than sending the person off to the product itself and interrupting the sale flow.

.. please allow reports, invoices, packing slips etc./, to be redesigned within actinic itself rather than having to faff about with crystal reports.

.. please please please fix this general script error which appears to be floating about and which I have now been hit by - and which is losing me customers and therefore money!

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[RuralWeb]

.. please put on your list somewhere (if it's not there already) the ability to have related products in something other than a vertical list 1,2,3 etc., .. a grid, or multiple columns below the parent product and allow a teeny image and title / price only? with an 'add to cart' there and then rather than sending the person off to the product itself and interrupting the sale flow. This is already possible in V8

[davidfarndon]

is it?

oops.

I promise to try harder.

David

[los_design]

Actinic folks - a few ideas ..

.. please put on your list somewhere (if it's not there already) the ability to have related products in something other than a vertical list 1,2,3 etc., .. a grid, or multiple columns below the parent product and allow a teeny image and title / price only? with an 'add to cart' there and then rather than sending the person off to the product itself and interrupting the sale flow.

.. please allow reports, invoices, packing slips etc./, to be redesigned within actinic itself rather than having to faff about with crystal reports.

.. please please please fix this general script error which appears to be floating about and which I have now been hit by - and which is losing me customers and therefore money!

(A General Script Error Occurred

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Error: ../acatalog/89Z241Z156Z50A1180804972B4904.session can not be locked during Session init!
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Press the Browser back button and try again or contact the site owner)
Hi Dave

the init issue can be searched for (it is around the forum somewhere, canny be aR£Ed to search for it...)

Also, imagine V8 is dynamic :eek: The layouts can be altered for many, many conditions within Actinic.

Horizontal, vertical, diagonal, floating, random images WITHOUT PHP(I liked this so much I put it on our site:rolleyes: ) etc etc

Have a play, you will discover it.....

enjoy

[cdicken]

Hi David

With regards to this related products list, if you go to 'Design | Library | Layouts' and open the 'Related Product Lists' group, you can edit the 'Standard Product Related Products List'.
Click the orange 'Click here to edit list layout settings' text.
Change to the 'Edit Rows/Columns' tab.
Change the 'No. of Items' column to whatever you want.
You can also go to 'Site Options | Layout' and set the 'Product Related Products Item Layout' to 'Mini Product Related Products Item' - this includes a little image.

I've reported the reports request to the development team.

[davidfarndon]

thanks Chris et al,
I actually had a play (when it was pointed out v8 could aready do this ..) and managed to get a grid of related products and using the design view I was able to adjust the size of the thumbnails. I was very pleased to be able to adjust it this way and it looks pretty good.

Is it possible to (I couldn't quite figure it out) ensure that the columns thus created are equal in width and to make sure the content for each related products are level (top of the 'cell') .. they seemed to want to be centred vertically and the 'cells' - to my eyes anyway don't appear to be the same width.

lastly, I now know I can add an 'add to basket' button but it defaults to the one used elsewhere. Which is fine for the main product, but for the related (smaller) products it's a bit big .. is it possible to have a second 'add to basket' button to the related products which is different (i.e. just a plus sign or a small basket image). It seems to default to being above the related product .. I'd rather like it underneath! .. I was stuffed if I could see where it was hiding in the design view code to be able to shift its position.

thanks.

David

[cdicken]

Is it possible to (I could quite figure it out) ensure that the columns are equal in width, and to make sure the content for each related products are level (top of the 'cell') .. they seemed to want to be centred vertically.When editing 'Standard Product Related Products List', you can edit the '<td>' tags that go around each item in the list. This is in the 'Edit Rows/Columns' list.

If you have two columns, change the tags from
<td>
toi
<td valign="top" width="50%">lastly, I now know I can add an 'add to basket' button but it defaults to the one used elsewhere. Which isfine for the main product, but for the related )smaller) products is a bit big .. is it possible to have a second add to basket button to the related products which is different (i.e. just a plus sign or a small basket image)

Go to 'Design | Library | Layouts' and expand the 'Add to Cart Button' Group
Right-cick on 'Add to Cart Button Image' and select 'New Layout'
Call it 'Small Add To Cart Button'
Edit the code of this so that the 'CartButtonImage' is replaced by the filename of a small graphic.
Now edit the related products layout, and add in the following code:
<actinic:variable name="AddToCartButton" value="Small Add To Cart Button" />
This is a 'Fixed Layout' - which will ensure the correct add to cart button layout will be used all the time.

[davidfarndon]

you are the man.

thanks

David