Featured products list
Getting started
In this article, you will learn about the featured products list. Featured products list functionality allows displaying new, selected, or Exponea products in the respective tabs on the home page of the website below the slider (1). This block is responsive, so products will be correctly visible both on desktop and mobile devices without additional input.
Featured products need to be activated in the desired altshop in order to be visible on the website. You can find more about activating featured products in the Featured products / list - browsing and managing featured products in altshop module article.
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| Visualization of the featured products on the home page (desktop view) |
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| Visualization of the featured products on the home page (mobile view) |
To open the Featured products / list view, in the admin panel, navigate to:
Alt shops > Featured products / list
All possible operations to perform on the Featured products / list view can be done in the Filters (2), and Featured products / list (3) tabs.
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| Visualization of the featured products / list |
Table of contents:
- Filters section
- Featured products / list
- Adding new featured products
- Configuring featured products list
Filters section
The Filters section allows sorting of the featured products in the CMS module, based on the available filters. Below you will find a description of available filters
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| Visualization of the filters tab in the Featured products / list module |
- Is active? - Featured products list activity status.
After defining the above filters, select the Apply Filters button to get a list of sites according to the applied filters.
Featured products / list
The Featured products / list section allows organizing the filtered featured products, edit them and create new ones, delete them, and search for the desired featured products list.
Below you will find a description of all possible actions you can perform in the featured products / list section.
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Visualization of the select list section in the Featured products / list module |
- Select the Show X entries(1) field to set the number of featured products, displayed on one page (min 10 / max 100).
- The names of the columns (2) that contain information about a target featured products list. Each column is susceptible to sorting.
To sort the records, click on the title of the column in question.
- ID - An internal ID of the featured product list.
- Name - The system name of the featured product list.
- Public name - Name of the featured product lists that is visible to the customers.
- Sort order - Featured products sort order. The active list will be displayed in order according to this value.
- Is active? - Activity status of the featured products list.
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Actions - List of buttons with possible actions that can be done to the desired featured product list:
- Edit - Edit desired featured products list. You can find more about editing in the Configuring featured products list chapter.
- View - Allows to view the content of the featured products list without the ability to edit any fields in it.
- Delete - Deletes the featured products list without the ability to restore it.
- Select the Add (3) button to go to the adding the new featured products list. You can learn more about adding of the featured products in the Adding new featured products list chapter.
- Search box (4) where you can search for featured products list by their system name.
- Page buttons(5), which allows user to change the page of currently viewed featured products lists.
Adding new featured products list
Below, you will find a description of all possible fields that can be edited while creating a new featured products list.
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| Visualization of the adding of the featured products list |
- Name - The system name of the featured product list.
- Public name - Name of the featured product lists that is visible to the customers.
- Is active? - Activity status of the featured products list.
- Sort order - Featured products sort order. The active list will be displayed in order according to this value.
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Type - A type of the featured products list. You can find more about information about types in the Configuring featured products list chapter. The available types are:
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Custom - Custom added products and their sort order
- Bestsellers - Custom added products and their sort order with additional recommendation of bestselling products list
- News - Newly added products
- Exponea recommendations - Products configured in the Exponea. More about Exponea integration can be found in the [UNDER CONSTRUCTION] article.
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Custom - Custom added products and their sort order
With all necessary fields filled, you can save the changes using the save button, and add the products to your list by editing it. More about editing the featured products list can be found in the Configuring featured products list chapter.
Configuring featured products list
As users are unable to add products to their featured products list during its creation, it is needed to edit the desired list. Below you will find different types of product lists.
Custom
Custom type allows users to add their desired products to the list and change their sort order.
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| Visualization of the custom type |
You can change the sort order of the products by using the drag & drop functionality.
Products will show alerts next ot their name in case of product having no stock, or being inactive. You can remove the products by pressing the "remove" buton.
Bestsellers
Bestsellers type works exactly like custom type, but has one additional tab, where products are visible with their sold quantity, which helps to decide which products should be visible. You can add products by pressing the "Add to list" button
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| Visualization of the bestsellers type |
In the Bestsellers propositions tab you can also hide the unwanted products by pressing the hide button.
You can change the sort order of the products by using the drag & drop functionality.
Products will show alerts next ot their name in case of product having no stock, or being inactive. You can remove the products by pressing the "remove" buton.
News
News type automatically adds and changes the products visible in the featured products list. It shows only the newest products.
Exponea recommendations
Exponea recommendations tab allows to select an Exponea product block from
CMS > Exponea / Recommend Product Block
RememberYou can learn about the Exponea functionality in the [UNDER CONSTRUCTION] article
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| Visualization of the adding of the exponea recommendations type |