Can Featured Products Grid Add to Cart when Has Choices?

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Can Featured Products Grid Add to Cart when Has Choices?

Post by ZLA » Sat May 09, 2009 1:37 pm

The Featured Products Grid defaults to displaying More Details if it has choices. Is it possible to display the product and its choices in the Featured Products Grid? Would it be better to 1) modify the Featured Products grid layout or 2) copy and modify BuyProductDialog and change the underlying data source to match the data for Featured Products?

I've included a sample of what I'm shooting for. Thanks in advance.
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Re: Can Featured Products Grid Add to Cart when Has Choices?

Post by William M » Sat May 09, 2009 3:02 pm

I prefer to have neither button show up (Add to Cart and Details) on the home page. If the idea is to get the shopper to look at a product just let them click on the product or description. When I'm shopping, I like to see if there's a better product on the cat page or look at more details on the product page.

Maybe it's just me..... but, why allow the shopper the choice to select a product and check out without reading details, disclaimers, shipping restrictions, etc. on the product page first? ... unless the product line is so simple and customers are constantly re-ordering.

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Re: Can Featured Products Grid Add to Cart when Has Choices?

Post by ZLA » Sun May 10, 2009 7:56 am

As you can see from the image, there are no further details. Only featured items will appear and only simple ones would be chosen. Can you offer any advice on how to accomplish this from a technical viewpoint?

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Re: Can Featured Products Grid Add to Cart when Has Choices?

Post by jmestep » Sun May 10, 2009 11:39 am

I've done a category page and a search by sku page where a shopper can add multiple products with options to the cart from one page. I took the code from the ProductHelper.cs and modified that to show the options. It's the section BuildProductOptions(Product product, PlaceHolder phOptions)
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Re: Can Featured Products Grid Add to Cart when Has Choices?

Post by ZLA » Sun May 10, 2009 12:15 pm

Thanks Judy.

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