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jj_in_atlanta · Guest

I'm very new to CS, and am beginning to plan for a commerce site.
The site will have several sections which will each have several products on
their main page (the sections will be departments and organizations) The
user will also be able to view a list of all products on those sections, but
we want to present them with a featured product list initially when they
choose a section.
What would be the best way to accomplish that within Commerce server? I
haven't yet seen a way of creating custom lists(for lack of a better word)
where I could define each of these section-pages and what products would be
on them (in order)

Thanks.

Vinayak Tadas[MSFT] · Guest

One thing you can do
1. Create a property definiiton name "FeaturedProduct" and datatype boolean
2. Add it to all the product definitions
3. Set the value of FeaturedProduct to 1 for all the products you want to
display as featured products
4. When displaying the featured products on the site perform a search on
the catalog and set the sqlwhereclause to "FeaturedProduct=1"
This will return the list of all the featured products which you can then
display on the site
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I'm very new to CS, and am beginning to plan for a commerce site.
The site will have several sections which will each have several products
on
their main page (the sections will be departments and organizations) The
user will also be able to view a list of all products on those sections,
but
we want to present them with a featured product list initially when they
choose a section.
What would be the best way to accomplish that within Commerce server? I
haven't yet seen a way of creating custom lists(for lack of a better word)
where I could define each of these section-pages and what products would be
on them (in order)

Thanks.

Thanks
Vinayak Tadas
Microsoft
http://blogs.msdn.com/vinayakt

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jj_in_atlanta · Guest

If I take that approach, I'd need to create a separate property for each of
the section homepages - ex:
FeaturedOnHomePage
FeaturedOnSpecialsPage
FeaturedOnMensPage
etc.
Plus, I have no way of Arranging them - we will be having a "primary"
featured product, plus 4 other features, on each of the section homepages.

I had considered making a new section category "SectionHomePages", and that
having property "productList" which would be a semi-colon separated list of
SKU's - but the system wants to list those categories along with regular
department-like categories.

Any other suggestions?
Thanks

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