The Order Which More Info Pages Are Generated During Publish

[ashubert]

I have custom templates.

My products on their more info page get assigned a Category based on what pages they appear on. For example if I have a baseball, its more info page shows the user he came from the sporting goods page. I use a VAR in the sporting goods page template that gets used on the products more info page during publish.

However, I have some items that need to be on more than one page. For example, a BBQ Meat thermometer needs to appear on - gadgets and sometimes on the home page.

The problem is the more info page is publishing from the home page first and assigning it to the category HOME PAGE rather than - GADGETS.

Is there a way to change the publish order to force the more info to be built after the - gadget page rather than the home page?

Sorry if this is confusing, it is for me too

[Jim]

No, the publish order is not defineable. The files will be published in the order that they occur in the database.

You could put the page in one of hte custom fields and then use that for your var instead of the page name.

[ashubert]

Hi, Jim, thanks for the reply!

I used the VAR because it required less maintenance (few pages) than products. Plus pages pretty much will always be there, product comes and goes.

I guess I could do that. So If I delete the home page or rename it, will it then change the publishing order? Or can I change it in mySQL?

I know this functionality probably is not major enough for most users but a feature enhancement or way to change this in the future would be cool.

[Jim]

Renaming the home page would not change the order.

If you delete the home page and recreate it then the page order would change. But if you delete other pages and add new pages then it may end up with the main page being the one with the lowest record number again.

ShopSite does not use mySQL, the data is stored in an SQLite database. You can't set the order of product records in that database though, they will always be in the order that they were created.

[ashubert]

Thanks much!

I will delete the page. Then add it as needed.

I appreciate the help!

Andy

[Jim]

Make sure you do a full publish through Utilities > Publish > Regenerate and not just click the Publish tab otherwise even with removing the main page it may assign the product the name of the main page because other pages might not be published.

[ashubert]

Will do. Thank you!