Special offers/ Best Sellers.

Submitted by jovemac on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 05:28

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Joined: 01/23/2008

hi!

I have installed drupal/uber cart. Enabled this special offer and best seller options. Both of them fit only in the content area of drupal. I want this to be displayed either in right/left side bars where they are not fitting in. Is there any way to change the display to

Img
Name
Price

in this vertical format rather than the exisiting horizontal format?

Regards - Jo

permalink #1 Fri, 04/11/2008 - 18:42

Ryan

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Hey Jo, you'll probably have to make your own blocks for this using the Views module. Those core catalog blocks have probably already been removed b/c of the limitation you've pointed out and others.

permalink #2 Tue, 04/15/2008 - 15:49

jezv

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Joined: 01/13/2008

Hi Ryan

How do you make a best sellers block using Views? I can't see any fields that relate to sales data that could be used to sort the products.

Cheers

Jez

permalink #3 Tue, 04/15/2008 - 16:46

thill

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Joined: 01/25/2008

Jez,

I don't like to step on Ryan's toes but I have an answer for you.

For us it depends on the client, for budget projects we just do a CCK Field or two related to featured products and use views to display a block and a page.

For jobs that require it we use the Statistics functionality built into Drupal core. You can read a little on it here http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/statistics. I have also used the Drupal Hall of Fame module located here http://drupal.org/project/hof.

Both require some customization and theming to work exactly how you would want them to work.

permalink #4 Wed, 04/16/2008 - 18:34

jezv

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Joined: 01/13/2008

Hmm, thanks thill

I can see that a cck field would work well for promotions or featured products (is this better than using a taxonomy term?). I can also see that the statistics or HOF modules would help with a 'most viewed products' block or similar. But what about recreating the bestsellers block, which seems to have disappeared somewhere between beta7 and RC2? (unless I'm going blind, in which case I apologise for wasting your time)

Jez

permalink #5 Wed, 04/16/2008 - 21:28

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