AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Hello, I had a quick question regarding the related products assignment on the product detail page. When I first purchased AC 7.0, I remember the Related Products items automatically being generated from items of the same brand. For example, if I was on a product detail page for a BRAND ABC item, the related products would display other items from BRAND ABC automatically.

Now that my programmers have modified the development site and tweaked a lot of things, this feature no longer works. It seems like I have to manually input all the related products, which is not very do-able for us at the current time.

Could anyone advise which file I need to look at to reset this setting? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Alan Lee

Sounds like you're thinking of the related-products user control.

There's also product accessories that you can associate with a product. When the main product is purchased, an upsell page is displayed offering the accessories. These are assigned on the edit product page.

The user control just displays other products in the same category if I recall correctly.

So how exactly do i activate this user control, Joe?

Because as it stands, I have to manually select all the SIMILAR PRODUCTS from the edit product page.

I'd just like to have AbleCommerce automatically select other items listed in the same BRAND (category) and show them as related products.

Very easy to do.

The bigger question WHERE you want it to go. Let's use my AbleMods.com site as an example.

You'll notice across the bottom I have various products listed on the home page. Those are featured products and I just added the ConLib for featured products to the start of the footer scriptlet. But that's not what you're looking for...

If you go into any of those products and display the product page, you'll see a section at the bottom "Other Items in this Category". That is what it sounds like you're wanting - a control that'll show other products in the same category as the product being displayed.

First log into your site as Admin.

Go into the Website, Content and Layout menu option. Scroll down to the Show Product 1 content scriptlet. Edit it. I'm assuming this is the content scriptlet you're using to display your product pages because this is the default one for AC7.

In the Content: window, scroll it the very bottom and add the line: Click the Save button and browse back to the store side and pick a product. You should now see that control spread across the bottom of the product page displaying other products in the same category.

You can find what all the parameters and options are available for that user control by going into the Admin side and clicking the Help, ConLib Reference menu option.