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ray22901031  
#1 Posted : Friday, May 6, 2022 10:37:55 PM(UTC)
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We seem to be having problems with the feature products widget. It will only display products at the parent level, only if products exist directly at this level, not indirectly or below it.

Example using these categories:

RCA Radios - ID 290
---- RCA Commercial Portables - ID 291
-------- RCA BR200 Radios - ID 293
-------- RCA 152x0 Radios - ID 294
---- RCA Commercial Mobiles - ID 292

The main sub parent category is RCA Radios with two subcategories called commercial portables and commercial mobiles, the subcategory for commercial portables has two other subcategories, ID's 293 & 294

There are no direct products assigned to RCA Radios, ID 290
There are no direct products assigned to RCA Commercial Portables, ID 291
There are multiple products assigned to ID 293 & ID 294

When setting the feature products widgets to ID 290, nothing shows
When setting the feature products widgets to ID 291, nothing shows

When setting the feature products widgets to ID 293, all products for 293 will show
When setting the feature products widgets to ID 294, all products for 294 will show

The default setting for this is zero that shows everything underneath the main parent that is set to "Include product in Featured Listing"

I should be able to set the settings to ID 290, which is a sub parent of the main parent, and I'm expecting to display everything underneath, it does not. It will only display products that are directly linked to the category ID, not a parent above it.

I hope I have explained myself properly as this is critical for us, another option would be to take the multi-grid view widget (which works at the sub parent level, showing everything under it), and introduce a show only "Include product in Featured Listing" Option for this widget.

If this is an easy fix kindly let me know, if not I'm going to have to check with my developer to create a multi-grid view component that does work with sub parents with a "Include product in Featured Listing" Option.

Many Thanks,
-Ray

UPDATE: it also might provide better content to explain the purpose. We use the option "Include product in Featured Listing" to show sale items. We would like to create a contact page called "Items on Sale" that has two feature product wedgets. One would be for radios and the other one underneath would be for accessories. This helps when the customer is only interested to see what radios are on sale for the month, since all the items would be grouped together and vice a versa.

Edited by user Friday, May 6, 2022 10:45:07 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified
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nadeem  
#2 Posted : Tuesday, May 10, 2022 6:31:31 AM(UTC)
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Hi Ray,

If you have the source code, you can update the GetFeaturedProducts function inside Products/ProductRepository.cs file to load featured products recursively.

To do this, locate the following line of code (around line #247)

Code:

criteria.Add(Subqueries.PropertyIn("P.Id", categoryFilter));


and replace with

Code:

if (recurse)
{
   criteria.Add(Subqueries.PropertyIn("P.Id", GetProductsLinkedToCategory(categoryId, recurse)));
}
else
{
    criteria.Add(Subqueries.PropertyIn("P.Id", categoryFilter));
}


where recurse is the bool flag sent via a parameter to function. When recurse = true, the featured products will be loaded from child categories recursively. Otherwise, it will work as currently is. Alternatively, you can replicate the same function in the front end code instead of using from ProductRepository.

Hope this helps!
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#3 Posted : Tuesday, May 10, 2022 8:44:47 AM(UTC)
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Yes, we do have the source code, and I do appreciate the suggestion. One idea is just to inherit from the current component and create a new one with this feature.

This might be a good idea for you guys to include in a future update, just have a checkbox as an option.

Just my thoughts, thank you so much for looking into this.

-Ray
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