Display Popular Products

[atulkhare]

I am using ablecommerce 7.0 licenced version..
i want to know how to define popular products ?..is it possible to define our own popular product or not ?
Actually when my basket is empty it is invisible .at that time i want to display popular product on that empty space..
what is top sellers..it is displaying in place of empty basket,but i dont know how to define or fix it ? when i add any item in basket it become disappear..i need this same functionality but how it will configure.
[[ConLib:MiniBasket AlternateControl="PopularProductsDialog.ascx"]] what is the utility of this control.
if you have any other solution to fill that place at the time of Empty basket than please guide me.

[mazhar]

Please post this sort of questions in the AbleCommerce 7.0 Asp.Net 2.0 Shopping Cart forum, this forum is essentially for feature requests. You can discuss this sort of question in the proposed forums and if you find that its some thing that should be feature in the AbleCommerce then you can create a thread for that here in this forums

You can not manually specify the popular products. Popular products are extracted from orders. One way to make them available could be to place some demo orders with the products you want to show.

[AbleMods]

I am using ablecommerce 7.0 licenced version..
i want to know how to define popular products ?..is it possible to define our own popular product or not ?
Actually when my basket is empty it is invisible .at that time i want to display popular product on that empty space..
what is top sellers..it is displaying in place of empty basket,but i dont know how to define or fix it ? when i add any item in basket it become disappear..i need this same functionality but how it will configure.
[[ConLib:MiniBasket AlternateControl="PopularProductsDialog.ascx"]] what is the utility of this control.
if you have any other solution to fill that place at the time of Empty basket than please guide me.

Use Featured Products and the associated Featured Products control.

[atulkhare]

i am unable to understand what exactly you are saying.. so Please describe it in detail..


Thanks and regards
Atul khare

[AbleMods]

i am unable to understand what exactly you are saying.. so Please describe it in detail..

When you edit a product in the catalog, there is a checkbox labelled "Featured". If you check that checkbox, then that product will be included in the Featured Products user control. This allows you to control which products will show up in the control.

To have those featured products displayed on your website, you will need to add the Featured Products user control to a content or sidebar scriptlet. You can see how other user controls are added to a page by editing any of the default AC7 scriptlets.

Available parameters for the Featured Products user control are documented in the Admin menus Help/ConLib Reference.

[atulkhare]

what is the different between featured product and Product????
at starting when i want to display products in grid according to perticular category so at that time i was unable to find that specific Conlib and when i was add any new product that were not be displayed in grid ,but when i checked that featured option it display in grid....
Actually i am only using featured product .when i add any new product so at that time i checked that featured option..
Is it right or will create any problem later ?

[AbleMods]

what is the different between featured product and Product????
at starting when i want to display products in grid according to perticular category so at that time i was unable to find that specific Conlib and when i was add any new product that were not be displayed in grid ,but when i checked that featured option it display in grid....
Actually i am only using featured product .when i add any new product so at that time i checked that featured option..
Is it right or will create any problem later ?

A "featured" product is simply a product that gets included in another user control. There is no other functionality for the checkbox.

Setting the checkbox for every single product in your catalog would defeat the purpose of the field, so I wouldn't do that.

I'm not sure what grid you are referring to. Perhaps you already have the featured products grid in place on one of your scriptlets and that's how you've learned to display the products. There are many other user controls in the ~/ConLib/ folder that display products in a variety of ways. Each one is well documented in the Help, ConLib Reference.

There are also several articles in the Helpful Topics forum here that explain how to set up pages, make use of user controls etc.

[atulkhare]

but if i want to display product in grid according to category id so which one i should have to use...currently i am using featured products grid for displaying products according to category.
but the problem with this is when i add any new product at that time i have to click 0n to featured check box....i am using
ProductList.DataSource = ProductDataSource.GetRandomFeaturedProducts(0, true, this.Size);
is there any other way to do this same task?

Thanks and Regard
Atul khare

[mazhar]

Find out the category id of the category for which you want to show the featured products and the just put that id in the following line instead of 0

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ProductList.DataSource = ProductDataSource.GetRandomFeaturedProducts(yourcategoryid, true, this.Size);

[AbleMods]

but if i want to display product in grid according to category id so which one i should have to use...currently i am using featured products grid for displaying products according to category.
but the problem with this is when i add any new product at that time i have to click 0n to featured check box....i am using
ProductList.DataSource = ProductDataSource.GetRandomFeaturedProducts(0, true, this.Size);
is there any other way to do this same task?

Thanks and Regard
Atul khare

The CategoryGridPage user controls were designed to do all of this automatically for you. Try using them or use Mazhar's line of code to retrieve products for a designated category.