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I noticed when using the Bvc5ChoiceGrid template, your variants can show images. Is this only for variants that are image radio button list? In the VariantsGridDisplay.ascx it shows: Code:
<img id="Img1" runat="server" visible='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "DisplayImages") %>' alt='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "AssociatedProduct.ImageFileSmallAlternateText") %>'
Where is it pulling the value for the visible tag? All of my variants are radio button list and no image is dispplayed. I know I can replace the code above with visible="true" but i didnt know if there was a setting somewhere instead of modifing the code. Thanks! Bryan
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I'm not sure if that feature was ever fully enabled. You should be able just to change the visible="true" to test it out. I suspect the reason it's not fully implemented has to do with spacing/sizing of the images.
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Originally Posted by: "Marcus" 
I'm not sure if that feature was ever fully enabled. You should be able just to change the visible="true" to test it out. I suspect the reason it's not fully implemented has to do with spacing/sizing of the images.
Ya i know I can just put visible=true but i didnt know if there was code in the control that controls it like below Code:
<uc3:VariantsGridDisplay ID="VariantsGridDisplay" runat="server" DisplayImages="true"/>
Just wanted to make sure I'm not going in and changing stuff too deep when it can be changed from the control itself... that's all :) Thanks!
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Another question: I noticed the variants get sorted by name instead of the sort order I set in the admin. Is there a way to have the variants keep the same sort as set in the admin or is the code below the only way to sort (i tried by "DisplayPrice" to show to lowest price first but that didnt work either) Code:
Dim CombinationDisplays As New Utilities.SortableCollection(Of Catalog.ProductCombinationDisplay)(Catalog.InternalProduct.GetProductCombinationDisplays(BaseProduct))
CombinationDisplays.Sort("ComboDisplayName", Utilities.SortDirection.Ascending)
VariantsGridDisplayRepeater.DataSource = CombinationDisplays
VariantsGridDisplayRepeater.DataBind()
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Have you tried commenting out the sort line? |
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Originally Posted by: "Aaron"
Have you tried commenting out the sort line?
Looks like it displays in a random order. I noticed the same with editing the product variants in the admin. I wish it would keep the sort order set when creating the choices.
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MerchantTribe (BV6) keeps everything in order. Sorry, BV5 doesn't have that feature.
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ya sorta (no pun intended) stinks to have to upgrade to a whole new platform to get a sort feature thats used everywhere else on the site for variants except on the edit variants page (where you edit the choices) and bvcchoicegrid template. oh well it was worth a try ;)
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Bryan,
We actually looked into adding this to BV5 at one point. The problem is a technical one in the way that variants are implemented. It turned out to be a very significant amount of work to try and accomplish this. In the end, it spurred us to rewrite the whole variant system for BV6 so that we could enforce sorting easily and everywhere. I wish I had a quick fix for you.
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ok. When I tried to sort by "DisplayPrice" i couldnt figure out why the lowest price wasnt at the top. Its not sorting by low and high, its sorting only by alphabetical so technically $1299 would come before $899.
If I could somehow sort by price that would help for products with a lot of variants.
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