Catalog index page & the bulk area

[asprott]

On our site we are not intending to use the catalog index page at all, as we see it as an uneeded layer of navigation.

However (if I'm correct), if users have a firewall with browser privacy enabled this make prevent the Actinic referrer script working properly and they may be returned to the catalog index page.

The problem is, that the bulk area includes the product placement template, which has been customised purely for placing products (ironically) rather than the list of sections.

Is there anyway I can alter what the bulk will show e.g. remove the inlcusion of the product placement template?

Cheers

Andrew

[Ben]

Hi Andrew

I'm not certain of what you mean regarding the template. Have you customised the bulk part of the Primary template just for the index page? Is there a link to this page you could post (I couldn't see it at www.pramcentre.co.uk)?

The way that Actinic handles the information about the previous page is due to be changed in the next maintenance release, so customers using firewalls should not experience being sent back to the acatalog index page.

Ben

[cdicken]

In addition to this, if by remove the inlcusion of the product placement template you mean that you want to not display any products or sections on the front page of the store, then open Act_CatalogBody.html and replace

NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTBODY

with

<!-- NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTBODY -->

[asprott]

Thanks for the replies, Ben and Chris.

Unfortunately the site is only up and running on my standalone demo for now. However, I've created a test are and this is the url for the catalog index page:

index (http://www.pramcentre.co.uk/TEST/PRAM%20CENTRE_co_uk%20Online%20Catalogue.htm)

The problem is that I have included the orange tab image, displayed at the top and bottom of the catalog index page, as part of the product placement template( Act_ProdcutBody.html).

Since there seems to be a need to include this page (until the next maintenance release), I am quite happy to display the section lists as generated by Actinic, but wouild like to remove the ornage tab image.

As I'm sure you will agree, the tab image doesn't look too hot on the page. I could just edit the html generated by Actinic, but I am trying to minimise the amount of customisation involved.

Any thoughts, I suppose I could just remove the Act_ProductBody.html from the Act_CatalogBody.html and insert a message letting users know why they have unexpectedly been taken there, but it would be nice to show the section list Actinic generates.

Cheers

Andrew

[cdicken]

Try replacing NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTBODY in Act_CatalogBody.html with

<!-- NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTBODY -->
NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONLISTTOP

This will just display the section list without any of the product list (i.e. not the orange tabs).

[asprott]

Hi Chris,

That has got rid of the orange tab at the bottom of the page, but the top one remains....mmmm.

Any thoughts???

Cheers

Andrew

[cdicken]

The top one seems to be the section image for '2 in 1 prams'. Just edit the section details.

[asprott]

Right again.

Sorry for that Chris, I was being a bit careless there, I didn't realise that I had set the orange tab as the section image.

In fact, I didn't know you could set the section image individually.


Thanks again

Andrew