Custom page template questions...

[Ben Ziegler]

Hello all...
I am a very new user of Shopsite (5.0.1.7...we are on Win2K...) and I have
some questions concerning the custom pages... I noticed that the Shopsite
example store that showed an advanced customization had products displayed
on a page in rows and columns (ie, 1 row with 2 products, then the 2nd row
with 2 products, etc...). I can mirror this effect with the built-in pages
simply by altering the amount of columns for a page...But I can't figure out
how to make a custom page do this for me... I can only loop the products
once in one big column, or even one big row...but no combination of the two.
(I tried multiple occurances of the [--PRODUCT--] tag before I closed the
loop, but it simply repeated the same product three times...which was not a
big help)

Anyone know if this is possible in V.5? Or are we going to have to wait an
undetermined amount of time for the V/6 release for Win2k?

Thanks,
Ben
Sewvacdirect.com

[Ben Ziegler]

Addendum:
I took a closer look at the 'advanced' example... It appears that the only
place with products occurring in multiple rows and columns is on the index
frame. This was probably directly coded in html in the text fields...
My question still remains though. Is it even possible to array products
into a table with more than one row and/or column with the custom page
template?

Thanks,
Ben

"Ben Ziegler" <ben@sewvacdirect.com> wrote in message
news:aerjem$d5t$1@support.shopsite.com...

Hello all...
I am a very new user of Shopsite (5.0.1.7...we are on Win2K...) and I have
some questions concerning the custom pages... I noticed that the Shopsite
example store that showed an advanced customization had products displayed
on a page in rows and columns (ie, 1 row with 2 products, then the 2nd row
with 2 products, etc...). I can mirror this effect with the built-in
pages
simply by altering the amount of columns for a page...But I can't figure
out
how to make a custom page do this for me... I can only loop the products
once in one big column, or even one big row...but no combination of the
two.
(I tried multiple occurances of the [--PRODUCT--] tag before I closed the
loop, but it simply repeated the same product three times...which was not
a
big help)

Anyone know if this is possible in V.5? Or are we going to have to wait
an
undetermined amount of time for the V/6 release for Win2k?

Thanks,
Ben
Sewvacdirect.com

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"Ben Ziegler" <ben@sewvacdirect.com> wrote in message
news:aerm5v$db1$1@support.shopsite.com...

Addendum:
I took a closer look at the 'advanced' example... It appears that the
only
place with products occurring in multiple rows and columns is on the index
frame. This was probably directly coded in html in the text fields...
My question still remains though. Is it even possible to array products
into a table with more than one row and/or column with the custom page
template?

Thanks,
Ben

"Ben Ziegler" <ben@sewvacdirect.com> wrote in message
news:aerjem$d5t$1@support.shopsite.com...
Hello all...
I am a very new user of Shopsite (5.0.1.7...we are on Win2K...) and I
have
some questions concerning the custom pages... I noticed that the
Shopsite
example store that showed an advanced customization had products
displayed
on a page in rows and columns (ie, 1 row with 2 products, then the 2nd
row
with 2 products, etc...). I can mirror this effect with the built-in
pages
simply by altering the amount of columns for a page...But I can't figure
out
how to make a custom page do this for me... I can only loop the products
once in one big column, or even one big row...but no combination of the
two.
(I tried multiple occurances of the [--PRODUCT--] tag before I closed
the
loop, but it simply repeated the same product three times...which was
not
a
big help)

Anyone know if this is possible in V.5? Or are we going to have to wait
an
undetermined amount of time for the V/6 release for Win2k?

Thanks,
Ben
Sewvacdirect.com

[loren_d_c]

Columns are not possible in Custom Templates prior to ShopSite v6.

-Loren


"Ben Ziegler" <ben@sewvacdirect.com> wrote in message
news:aerm5v$db1$1@support.shopsite.com...

Addendum:
I took a closer look at the 'advanced' example... It appears that the
only
place with products occurring in multiple rows and columns is on the index
frame. This was probably directly coded in html in the text fields...
My question still remains though. Is it even possible to array products
into a table with more than one row and/or column with the custom page
template?

Thanks,
Ben

"Ben Ziegler" <ben@sewvacdirect.com> wrote in message
news:aerjem$d5t$1@support.shopsite.com...
Hello all...
I am a very new user of Shopsite (5.0.1.7...we are on Win2K...) and I
have
some questions concerning the custom pages... I noticed that the
Shopsite
example store that showed an advanced customization had products
displayed
on a page in rows and columns (ie, 1 row with 2 products, then the 2nd
row
with 2 products, etc...). I can mirror this effect with the built-in
pages
simply by altering the amount of columns for a page...But I can't figure
out
how to make a custom page do this for me... I can only loop the products
once in one big column, or even one big row...but no combination of the
two.
(I tried multiple occurances of the [--PRODUCT--] tag before I closed
the
loop, but it simply repeated the same product three times...which was
not
a
big help)

Anyone know if this is possible in V.5? Or are we going to have to wait
an
undetermined amount of time for the V/6 release for Win2k?

Thanks,
Ben
Sewvacdirect.com

[Ben Ziegler]

Any idea when v.6 is going to be available for Windows systems?

Ben


"Loren" <loren_d_c@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:aesshs$gfj$1@support.shopsite.com...

Columns are not possible in Custom Templates prior to ShopSite v6.

-Loren


"Ben Ziegler" <ben@sewvacdirect.com> wrote in message
news:aerm5v$db1$1@support.shopsite.com...
Addendum:
I took a closer look at the 'advanced' example... It appears that the
only
place with products occurring in multiple rows and columns is on the
index
frame. This was probably directly coded in html in the text fields...
My question still remains though. Is it even possible to array products
into a table with more than one row and/or column with the custom page
template?

Thanks,
Ben

"Ben Ziegler" <ben@sewvacdirect.com> wrote in message
news:aerjem$d5t$1@support.shopsite.com...
Hello all...
I am a very new user of Shopsite (5.0.1.7...we are on Win2K...) and I
have
some questions concerning the custom pages... I noticed that the
Shopsite
example store that showed an advanced customization had products
displayed
on a page in rows and columns (ie, 1 row with 2 products, then the 2nd
row
with 2 products, etc...). I can mirror this effect with the built-in
pages
simply by altering the amount of columns for a page...But I can't
figure
out
how to make a custom page do this for me... I can only loop the
products
once in one big column, or even one big row...but no combination of
the
two.
(I tried multiple occurances of the [--PRODUCT--] tag before I closed
the
loop, but it simply repeated the same product three times...which was
not
a
big help)

Anyone know if this is possible in V.5? Or are we going to have to
wait
an
undetermined amount of time for the V/6 release for Win2k?

Thanks,
Ben
Sewvacdirect.com

[David H]

It will probably be available later this summer.

-David

"Ben Ziegler" <ben@sewvacdirect.com> wrote in message
news:aestre$gjg$1@support.shopsite.com...

Any idea when v.6 is going to be available for Windows systems?

Ben


"Loren" <loren_d_c@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:aesshs$gfj$1@support.shopsite.com...
Columns are not possible in Custom Templates prior to ShopSite v6.

-Loren


"Ben Ziegler" <ben@sewvacdirect.com> wrote in message
news:aerm5v$db1$1@support.shopsite.com...
Addendum:
I took a closer look at the 'advanced' example... It appears that the
only
place with products occurring in multiple rows and columns is on the
index
frame. This was probably directly coded in html in the text fields...
My question still remains though. Is it even possible to array
products
into a table with more than one row and/or column with the custom page
template?

Thanks,
Ben

"Ben Ziegler" <ben@sewvacdirect.com> wrote in message
news:aerjem$d5t$1@support.shopsite.com...
Hello all...
I am a very new user of Shopsite (5.0.1.7...we are on Win2K...) and
I
have
some questions concerning the custom pages... I noticed that the
Shopsite
example store that showed an advanced customization had products
displayed
on a page in rows and columns (ie, 1 row with 2 products, then the
2nd
row
with 2 products, etc...). I can mirror this effect with the
built-in
pages
simply by altering the amount of columns for a page...But I can't
figure
out
how to make a custom page do this for me... I can only loop the
products
once in one big column, or even one big row...but no combination of
the
two.
(I tried multiple occurances of the [--PRODUCT--] tag before I
closed
the
loop, but it simply repeated the same product three times...which
was
not
a
big help)

Anyone know if this is possible in V.5? Or are we going to have to
wait
an
undetermined amount of time for the V/6 release for Win2k?

Thanks,
Ben
Sewvacdirect.com

[Bill Werle]

Hello,

We are using Shopsite 6.0.3 on Linux. One of our Shopsite designers has
this same question/problem which was never answered due to to Ben's
version of Shopsite not supporting it. Loren stated v6 supports this so
I pose Ben's question again. How do you make a custom page display two
products in one row vs. diplaying it in one big column?

Thanks,

Bill Werle
http://www.interlinkadvantage.net


Ben Ziegler wrote:

Hello all...
I am a very new user of Shopsite (5.0.1.7...we are on Win2K...) and I have
some questions concerning the custom pages... I noticed that the Shopsite
example store that showed an advanced customization had products displayed
on a page in rows and columns (ie, 1 row with 2 products, then the 2nd row
with 2 products, etc...). I can mirror this effect with the built-in pages
simply by altering the amount of columns for a page...But I can't figure out
how to make a custom page do this for me... I can only loop the products
once in one big column, or even one big row...but no combination of the two.
(I tried multiple occurances of the [--PRODUCT--] tag before I closed the
loop, but it simply repeated the same product three times...which was not a
big help)

Anyone know if this is possible in V.5? Or are we going to have to wait an
undetermined amount of time for the V/6 release for Win2k?

Thanks,
Ben
Sewvacdirect.com

[loren_d_c]

Bill,

Review the custom template spec in the online help for your version of ShopSite .
For 6.0.3 Pro it is at:
http://www.shopsite.com/help/6.0/en-US/ ... .spec.html

Basically, there is a new parameter in v6 for the LOOP tags, represented in the
documentation as 'numcolumns'. Here is the documentation's description of the
effects of adding a number to your LOOP tags:

When used with the numcolumns parameter, the LOOP tag will be replaced with a <TR>
tag and the
END_LOOP tag will be replaced with a </TR> tag when the page is generated, so
you should not include
those tags in your template. Study the example multi-column page template to
see how this works.
There is also an example multi-column product template designed to work with
the page template. The
product template does not contain any tags that are explicitly for
multi-column layouts, but it must
work with the page template to produce correct HTML.

The numcolumns can either be a number, or another tag that represents a number (I
would expect that most people would use PAGE.Columns so that the number of coulmns
can be adjusted via the backoffice).

Note that in v6.1 when the LOOP SUBPRODUCTS tag was added, it also includes a
numcolumns parameter so that subproducts (previously called cross-sell) can be
output in multiple columns.

-Loren



Bill Werle wrote:

Hello,

We are using Shopsite 6.0.3 on Linux. One of our Shopsite designers has
this same question/problem which was never answered due to to Ben's
version of Shopsite not supporting it. Loren stated v6 supports this so
I pose Ben's question again. How do you make a custom page display two
products in one row vs. diplaying it in one big column?

Thanks,

Bill Werle
http://www.interlinkadvantage.net

Ben Ziegler wrote:
Hello all...
I am a very new user of Shopsite (5.0.1.7...we are on Win2K...) and I have
some questions concerning the custom pages... I noticed that the Shopsite
example store that showed an advanced customization had products displayed
on a page in rows and columns (ie, 1 row with 2 products, then the 2nd row
with 2 products, etc...). I can mirror this effect with the built-in pages
simply by altering the amount of columns for a page...But I can't figure out
how to make a custom page do this for me... I can only loop the products
once in one big column, or even one big row...but no combination of the two.
(I tried multiple occurances of the [--PRODUCT--] tag before I closed the
loop, but it simply repeated the same product three times...which was not a
big help)

Anyone know if this is possible in V.5? Or are we going to have to wait an
undetermined amount of time for the V/6 release for Win2k?

Thanks,
Ben
Sewvacdirect.com

[Bill Werle]

Loren,

Worked like a charm. I'd looked at that page before and completely
missed it.

Thanks a lot!

Bill Werle
http://www.interlinkadvantage.net


Loren wrote:

Bill,

Review the custom template spec in the online help for your version of ShopSite .
For 6.0.3 Pro it is at:
http://www.shopsite.com/help/6.0/en-US/ ... .spec.html

Basically, there is a new parameter in v6 for the LOOP tags, represented in the
documentation as 'numcolumns'. Here is the documentation's description of the
effects of adding a number to your LOOP tags:

When used with the numcolumns parameter, the LOOP tag will be replaced with a <TR
tag and the
END_LOOP tag will be replaced with a </TR> tag when the page is generated, so
you should not include
those tags in your template. Study the example multi-column page template to
see how this works.
There is also an example multi-column product template designed to work with
the page template. The
product template does not contain any tags that are explicitly for
multi-column layouts, but it must
work with the page template to produce correct HTML.

The numcolumns can either be a number, or another tag that represents a number (I
would expect that most people would use PAGE.Columns so that the number of coulmns
can be adjusted via the backoffice).

Note that in v6.1 when the LOOP SUBPRODUCTS tag was added, it also includes a
numcolumns parameter so that subproducts (previously called cross-sell) can be
output in multiple columns.

-Loren



Bill Werle wrote:


Hello,

We are using Shopsite 6.0.3 on Linux. One of our Shopsite designers has
this same question/problem which was never answered due to to Ben's
version of Shopsite not supporting it. Loren stated v6 supports this so
I pose Ben's question again. How do you make a custom page display two
products in one row vs. diplaying it in one big column?

Thanks,

Bill Werle
http://www.interlinkadvantage.net

Ben Ziegler wrote:

Hello all...
I am a very new user of Shopsite (5.0.1.7...we are on Win2K...) and I have
some questions concerning the custom pages... I noticed that the Shopsite
example store that showed an advanced customization had products displayed
on a page in rows and columns (ie, 1 row with 2 products, then the 2nd row
with 2 products, etc...). I can mirror this effect with the built-in pages
simply by altering the amount of columns for a page...But I can't figure out
how to make a custom page do this for me... I can only loop the products
once in one big column, or even one big row...but no combination of the two.
(I tried multiple occurances of the [--PRODUCT--] tag before I closed the
loop, but it simply repeated the same product three times...which was not a
big help)

Anyone know if this is possible in V.5? Or are we going to have to wait an
undetermined amount of time for the V/6 release for Win2k?

Thanks,
Ben
Sewvacdirect.com