Re: Display [price] in banner ad
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = >Thanks, this does work and displays the price. However, I also have a >markup of >the price and the markup works fine in the details.tpl but not with the >banner ad >and I can't seem to figure out what I need to change to get it to work.The reason is that just putting [price] into your banner ad is not enough for WebCatalog to know what the price should be. It needs to know what database to look in, what sku to look for, etc. That's why you use the [lookup] to find the price. So from a simplistic standpoint, if you substitute that big [lookup] everywhere you need [price] in your big math equation, then you'd get the right information.There is a way to simplify this with an [include], though, so you don't have to do so much typing:-- MarkupCalc.inc -- (put that big bunch of [ShowIf] with [math] text here)Then anywhere you need the marked-up price (even on your details.tpl page), use [include file=MarkupPrice.inc&price=[Lookup db=catalog.txt&lookinfield=sku&value=[sku]&returnfield=price]]You're basically making a 'macro' that takes a SKU and looks up its marked-up price atuomatically.So why does the simple [price] work in your Details.tpl page, you ask? It's because in that case you're performing a search in a database, and inside that search's [FoundItems] loop WebCatalog has enough contextual information to know how to find the [price] information. Your banner ad is *not* doing such a search, so it can't know the price unless you explicitly tell it to look it up in a database.Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/
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>Thanks, this does work and displays the price. However, I also have a >markup of >the price and the markup works fine in the details.tpl but not with the >banner ad >and I can't seem to figure out what I need to change to get it to work.The reason is that just putting [price] into your banner ad is not enough for WebCatalog to know what the price should be. It needs to know what database to look in, what sku to look for, etc. That's why you use the
[lookup] to find the price. So from a simplistic standpoint, if you substitute that big
[lookup] everywhere you need [price] in your big math equation, then you'd get the right information.There is a way to simplify this with an
[include], though, so you don't have to do so much typing:-- MarkupCalc.inc -- (put that big bunch of
[showif] with
[math] text here)Then anywhere you need the marked-up price (even on your details.tpl page), use [include file=MarkupPrice.inc&price=[Lookup db=catalog.txt&lookinfield=sku&value=[sku]&returnfield=price]]You're basically making a 'macro' that takes a SKU and looks up its marked-up price atuomatically.So why does the simple [price] work in your Details.tpl page, you ask? It's because in that case you're performing a search in a database, and inside that search's
[founditems] loop WebCatalog has enough contextual information to know how to find the [price] information. Your banner ad is *not* doing such a search, so it can't know the price unless you explicitly tell it to look it up in a database.Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/
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