AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Hello Everyone,

We are trying to make use of the featured products grid on our Home Page, and it works great at displaying four random featured products at a time. However, when I try to add a SelectedCategory="#" attribute to it, it starts displaying multiple listings of the same product. If I load the page, it will display one product 2,3, or 4 times, so that that product is all that is displaying on the page. Then if I reload the page, the same thing happens with another product.

I have tried to look at the ascx.cs file in the conlib folder, but it looks like unless I spend $1000 for the source code, I won't be able to get this fixed, since it looks like the problem is in the ProductDataSource.GetRandomFeaturedProducts(_SelectedCategory, true,IncludeOutOfStockItems, this.Size) function. Am I missing something, and does anybody else have a way to solve this issue without spending a lot to fix it?

You could try category featured products conlib with a category id of 0- I don't remember if that works for sure or not.

Hello Judy,

The default setting is set to 0, which displays the featured products of all of the categories. And that is what works fine. The thing is, I have 5 "top level" categories with their own homepages. And I would like to have each homepage have a featured products display which shows the featured products that are under each top level category.

There are two featured product grids.
FeaturedCategoryItems uses a different datasource
ProductCollection featured = ProductDataSource.GetFeaturedProducts(_CategoryId, true, IncludeOutOfStockItems, _MaxItems, 0);

_CategoryId is
int _CategoryId = PageHelper.GetCategoryId();