Rotating Top Sellers

[Brewhaus]

Is there a way to have the "Top Sellers" pull from a larger list of top selling items and show them randomly? Because of the nature of our business, the top three items are not going to change very often, if at all, so we would like to expand the list that the Top Sellers display pulls from to bring a bit of variety. We would still like to show only about three items, but pull from maybe the top dozen or so.

[jmestep]

I think you would use the MaxItems parameter - set it to 12 instead of 3. But leave your columns set at 3.

[mazhar]

Here is a workaround. The trick is to first load 100 top products and then pick specified number of products(MaxItems) randomly through those 100 top products.

Edit your ConLib/PopularProductsDialog.ascx.cs file and locate following code line

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List<Product> products = ProductDataSource.GetPopularProducts(this.MaxItems, prefferedCategoryId);

and replace code line with following code block

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//List<Product> products = ProductDataSource.GetPopularProducts(this.MaxItems, prefferedCategoryId);
        List<Product> products = ProductDataSource.GetPopularProducts(100, prefferedCategoryId);
        List<Product> randomProducts = new List<Product>();
        Random random = new Random();
        int count = 0;
        if (products.Count > 0)
        {
            if (MaxItems > products.Count)
                MaxItems = products.Count;
            while (count < MaxItems)
            {
                int index = random.Next(0, products.Count);
                Product product = products[index];
                if (!randomProducts.Contains(product))
                {
                    randomProducts.Add(product);
                    count++;
                }
            }
        }
        products = randomProducts;

Save the file and try again, it will pick random products.

[Brewhaus]

Judy- I had tried what you suggest before posting, and it expanded the list of Top Sellers to that quantity. That is where I became lost and decided to ask for help.

Mazhar- your code change worked perfectly- thank you. The great thing is that a person can control how much of a rolling list of items there will be by changing the number of products to pull from.

[mazhar]

Judy- I had tried what you suggest before posting, and it expanded the list of Top Sellers to that quantity. That is where I became lost and decided to ask for help.

Mazhar- your code change worked perfectly- thank you. The great thing is that a person can control how much of a rolling list of items there will be by changing the number of products to pull from.

I just updated the code. There was bug in previous code so please use the updated code from above post.

[Brewhaus]

Thank you again, Mazhar. I have pulled the new code above.

[rhuffman]

Mazahr:

Uploaded the above code and it works pretty well, except it is showing hidden items.
Anyway you can correct.

Thanks you Mazhar

[mazhar]

Mazahr:

Uploaded the above code and it works pretty well, except it is showing hidden items.
Anyway you can correct.

Thanks you Mazhar

In above code try replacing

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List<Product> products = ProductDataSource.GetPopularProducts(100, prefferedCategoryId);

with

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List<Product> products = ProductDataSource.GetPopularProducts(100, prefferedCategoryId);
        List<Product> tempProducts = new List<Product>();
        foreach (Product product in products)
        {
            if (product.Visibility == CatalogVisibility.Public)
                tempProducts.Add(product);
        }
        products.Clear();
        products.AddRange(tempProducts);