Featured Product – not working (JM Products)

After not getting any response to my post from 16 November (which I reposted yesterday under a new thread — maybe it was overlooked because I was replying to an old thread?), I decided to try the Featured Product mode of JM Products.

I followed the instructions on the Userguide, and I’m still not having any luck.

I’m really close to being ready to launch my site, but can’t until I figure this out — because without this functioning I have no control over what appears on my home page.

Not sure why this was overlooked by your support team. I would actually very much prefer to have the Categories ID functioning — it provides better control in my particular case. So if whoever is reading knows the solution to THAT problem, please send it my way…

best, Peter

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Profile photo of tomc 0.00 $tone December 7, 2011
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Here’s one way you can do it. Within the JM Products configuration, take note of the category ID.
Then define either a CMS static block or CMS page that includes a statement like this:

{{block type=”catalog/product_list” category_id=”28” template=”catalog/product/whatever.phtml”}}

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Profile photo of Pete Menchetti 0.00 $tone January 24, 2012
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Hi Tom,
I finally got around to trying to implement your suggestion, and I’m afraid I wasn’t able to make it work. I think I need a bit more guidance. The category ID is 34, I found that much… but I’m not quite sure where I need to put this info to get the products in that category to display. My template is JM_DECO, so any specifics you can provide for making this work with that template would be extra helpful and appreciated.

thanks, Peter

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Profile photo of chavan 100.00 $tone April 13, 2012
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Please try adding this to the home cms page

{{block type="catalog/product_list" name="home.catalog.product.list" alias="products_homepage" category_id="4" template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}

you will get a the products from a particular category , please specify the category id in the above.

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Profile photo of Pete Menchetti 0.00 $tone April 13, 2012
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Nice, that worked… sort of… it doesn’t look very pretty though… ๐Ÿ™

What do I need to do to make it display more like it did before? I’d like the "NEW ON SLOVENLY" in the black bar, and I don’t need the item count and grid/list/sorting options, and I’d prefer it displayed 4 products across. Below is a shot of what it used to look like. What should I do to make that happen again?

Attachment 20579

best -- Pete

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Stork11 0.00 $tone April 20, 2012
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Hello stickerguy,

Because what you did before is not JM Product, so the layout you got is also not JM Product layout.

For "Featured product", did you set attribute group like JM Product user guide? (From line "To be able to use Featured Product mode , you need to create a new attribute named "featured", please follow steps below")

Let me know if you continue getting this problem after doing as steps in user guide.

Best regards.

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Profile photo of Pete Menchetti 0.00 $tone July 4, 2012
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Hello,
In response to your question Stork11, yes, I had followed the instructions in the JM Product user guide. My developer found the problem:

Fyi the "featured" attribute that was created on the products wasn’t the right type (It was text field, needed integer 0/1 or Yes/No on magento options)
That is probably why it was not working, also you have to put at least 6 items (based on the current settings) to work. It won’t work with less.

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