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26 Jul 2007, 9:38 PM
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Featured Product Frustration

I'd like to change my featured products but I'm having some difficulty.

When I Catalog>Featured Products I see the three products I have featured and the New Product button.

When I click the New Product button I get a new screen with a drop down box of products listed. However, not all products are listed and I can only select from the items in the drop down box.

How do I add items to this drop down box so that they can be selected as featured products?

Thanks in advance! You guys ROCK! :clap:

27 Jul 2007, 4:43 AM
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Re: Featured Product Frustration

Featured Products do not include Products that are already set as a Featured Product ...

Featured Products do not include Products that are Document General ...

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27 Jul 2007, 2:17 PM
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Re: Featured Product Frustration

Ok. I guess I'm confused then, how do I set a product as a featured product?

28 Jul 2007, 3:42 AM
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Re: Featured Product Frustration

Any Product not already marked as a Featured Product or as the Document General Product type will be in the list ...

If not ... you have something miss configured ...

Check in the Catalog ... Product Types ... are all the Product Types marked as Add to Cart Yes? ... other than Document General, that is ...

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1 Aug 2007, 2:39 AM
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Re: Featured Product Frustration

I have the same problem. None of my new items show up in the featured products drop down list either. The only products that are there are some of the sample products.

I believe you when you say something is mis-configured to cause that, but I don't know what that is. I checked on the things you mentioned in your last post, and my products are in the general products category, are addable to the cart, and do indeed show up in the cart when I run simulations.

Anyone know how it could be that the products don't show up in the featured products drop down? I sure can't find it.

Thanks.

1 Aug 2007, 3:08 AM
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Re: Featured Product Frustration

Check in the Catalog ... Product Types ... that all product types can be added to the Cart except Document General ...

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1 Aug 2007, 3:12 AM
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Re: Featured Product Frustration

Yes, I did that. All have "Y" except the document type under "Add to Cart".

1 Aug 2007, 3:17 AM
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Re: Featured Product Frustration

How many Products do you have?

How many are already setup as Featured Products?

What are their Product Types?

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1 Aug 2007, 4:40 AM
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Re: Featured Product Frustration

Ok, I'm handled now. My products were in the drop down the whole time. It's just that the drop down object was so compressed that there was no room for the slider to move. I would drag the slider up and see the top of the list, and drag it slightly down, and be at the bottom of the list, but there were lots of products in between that i didn't see, including my new ones.

Sorry about that. :oops:

Thanks for helping me.

2 Aug 2007, 5:13 AM
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Re: Featured Product Frustration

Thanks for the update ... always appreciated as it is a great help to others ... yes, that includes those pesky moments when you feel like such a user ... :lamo:

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2 Aug 2007, 7:11 AM
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Re: Featured Product Frustration

lol

Yes, the problem was between the keyboard and the chair.

29 Jan 2008, 12:35 AM
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Re: Featured Product Frustration

I just experienced a similar "between the keyboard and the chair problem" in v1.3.7.1:
Only one out of seven featured product was visible at the featured products.

It appeared that the other six were unpublished,
which was not visible in the featured products list... :no:

Thanks for this thread! It helped me ruling out any other configuration faults...

Kind Regards,
Peter Martin, Joomla specialist
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