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Featured Products Block

Submitted by savezvous on Thu, 01/31/2008 - 11:41
savezvous
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 Joined: 11/30/2007

I've been searching around a bit and haven't come across any kind of "Featured Products" functionality yet.

It would be nice to be able to "check" a product as "featured" and then have a block that lets you display X number of featured products on the home page or catalog page (or anywhere you put the block). On page refresh, the products displayed in this block are randomly generated from the list of products that have been marked as "featured".

Thanks for producing such an easy to use, intuitive system so far!
permalink #1 Thu, 01/31/2008 - 12:08
thill
Posts: 34
 Joined: 01/25/2008

This might seem like a bit of a work around. We used CCK to add a field like you mentioned. We then used views to create the block.

permalink #2 Thu, 01/31/2008 - 12:26
TR
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 Joined: 11/05/2007
Bug FinderFAQ ModeratorGetting busy with the Ubercode.

Enable the "Special Offers" block at admin/store/settings/catalog/edit, then make the product(s) you want to feature "sticky" by selecting the "Sticky at top of lists" checkbox under node/#/edit where node/# is the product page for your product. There are some more settings for this block at admin/store/settings/catalog/edit/blocks

The "Special Offers" block can be renamed or repositioned at admin/build/block (Actually, right now it can't, because there's a bug in uc_catalog which I found while testing my response to your question!. I've just reported it at http://www.ubercart.org/issue/2902/uc_catalog_error_special_offers_block and I'm sure it will be fixed promptly.)

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permalink #3 Sat, 05/03/2008 - 01:38
Wonder95
Posts: 33
 Joined: 02/20/2008

For some reason, I have no option to enable the "Special Offers" block at admin/store/settings/catalog/edit. Is there something I need to enable for that option to be there?

Thanks.

permalink #4 Sat, 05/03/2008 - 08:22
lostcarpark
Posts: 22
 Joined: 09/22/2007

I ran into the same problem when I installed the release candidate and the featured products block disappeared. It's been moved out of the core functionality to the Marketing contributed module.

http://www.ubercart.org/contrib/3952