hidden sections

[pinbrook]

HHMM!! a slight dilemma.....

my latest actinic project is a clothes shop, with 100's of products and thousands of permutations.

So theres 2 features of catalog I'd like to utilise, one is the next/previous method of navigation so I can limit each product page to 10 products, and the other is stock control.

Easy so far.....

but the next/previous feature treats hidden sections as if they were not hidden( a bug I hope)

stock control with components requires the use of hidden sections

Any ideas??

[NormanRouxel]

Ho Jo,

If your clothes shop uses Top 2 Toe (much used in Fashion Footwear & Sports trade) as their existing EOPS / stock system then I've got a program that builds the Actinic site from their existing data. It deals automatically with all the permutations of sizes and colours.

Norman

[pinbrook]

The shop is a brand new venture, no physical shop, no physical stock

It needs stock control when stocks run low at the end of the season

[NormanRouxel]

Understood. Fashion type products are usually a pain a it's usually not possible to re-order so real-time stock control is important. Is that the case with your products.

Norman

[NormanRouxel]

Back to your main problem regarding hidden sections. Can't you just have the hidden items in a section well away from the products you are displaying so it doen't get into the back / Next sequence.

Norman

[pinbrook]

Hi Norman

Unfortunately not!

The problem with the previous and next is that catalog doesn't discriminate between hidden and non-hidden sections, so wherever your hidden section is there will be a prev and next to it somewhere!!

[pinbrook]

And of course hidden sections are a useful feature in simply removing stuff from the online catalog whilst not having to remove then from the database

[cdicken]

Very true

And my only suggestion would be to consolidate your hidden sections at the very bottom level of your store so that the next/previous section links cannot take customers to them.

[pinbrook]

Is there any chance that the issue with prev/next showing hidden sections can be fixed?

Surely this is a bug?

[cdicken]

I have reported it as a bug.