nVelocity question

[heinscott]

I am trying to use the RelatedProducts collection on my products page in order to implement suggested selling (when we would rather have a customer order something other than what they are currently on (for shipping reasons)). My question is this: Can I use only the first item in the collection rather than loop through each of them? Here's what I have tried...

$Product.RelatedProducts[0].ChildProduct.Name

with no luck. If, however, I use...

#foreach ($relatedproduct in $Product.RelatedProducts)
$relatedproduct.ChildProduct.Name
#end

...I get the desired outcome. The problem, however, is that I may have more than one product, and eventually I am going to be including table elements that will be all screwed up if the loop executes more than one time. I have tried various forms of the variable with brackets with no luck (ie, ${{Product.RelatedProducts[0]}.ChildProduct.Name})

I know I could complete this (and probably will have to eventually) with a conlib control, but, I wanted to figure out why specifying the specific item with brackets causes the nVelocity to stop working.

Any help would be appreciated.

Scott
Scott

[mazhar]

Try following syntax

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$Product.RelatedProducts.get_item(0).ChildProduct.Name

[heinscott]

Thanks Mazhar!
I had a feeling you'd be able to help me.

Scott