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How can I make catalog grid view show short descriptions?
Submitted by gthing on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 23:55
I have added a new field to my "product" content type where I can put in a short description. I would like to make this description show up in the grid catalog view underneath the image. Is this easily accomplished via a setting somewhere, or will I need to edit to module? If editing the module is needed - could someone help me with the php string I will need and point me in the right direction? Thanks! -Sam
You'll probably need to roll your own catalog using Views and the Views Bonus Pack to display nodes in a grid. bwv wrote a tutorial on this a while back posted here... it should still be valid or close enough for you to go off of.    For little things, like adding one field to the grid view, the simplest way is to override the theme function theme_uc_catalog_product_grid(). But Views is a very powerful approach that gives you a lot of flexibility without writing code. Even if you don't use Views for this task you should take the time to learn Views. The tutorial Ryan pointed to is a great place to start. Thank you both for your ideas. I like the idea of doing this override because grid view is almost doing exactly what I want already. Could you give me a little more information on how to go about overriding that function? For example, where is it being called? and how exactly would I override it? Thanks!
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