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Hello,

I am using Products 2.3.1 in CMS Made Simple 1.5.4 "Carolina"

I am trying to call the product details page for a single product into a cms page using the following: However, when I load the page, all I get is a dot (.) .

Is the syntax correct?

The product does exist and I can get to it ok from the category summary page.


Any ideas?


Regards

Ben

I have tried this too, using CMS 1.6.6 and Products 2.4.3.  First, note that the current documentation specifies action="details" (plural), but I have tried it both ways and I get smarty errors:
string(140) "Smarty error: [in content:content_en line 1]: syntax error: invalid attribute name: 'action' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 1550)" string(126) "Smarty error: [in content:content_en line 1]: syntax error: invalid attribute name: '=' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 1550)" string(134) "Smarty error: [in content:content_en line 1]: syntax error: invalid attribute name: '"details"' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 1550)"

My tag: {Products action="details" productid="1"}

If I take out the action parameter and just leave productid, that give errors too.  But the example given in the documentation, {Products category='categoryname'} works fine.

I suspect we are doing something wrong, but it is not obvious from the documentation.  If you find a solution, please post it.
Steve

This works, although not exactly as I had hoped:

{module_action_link module='Products' action='details' productid="1"}

It does not give any errors just the word "Products", which is a link that when clicked, will give you the details of the item you specify.  I was hoping it would give the details directly without needing to click on the "Products" link.

starbits wrote: This works, although not exactly as I had hoped:

{module_action_link module='Products' action='details' productid="1"}

It does not give any errors just the word "Products", which is a link that when clicked, will give you the details of the item you specify.  I was hoping it would give the details directly without needing to click on the "Products" link.

starbits,

thanks for your post.
I will have another play around and see if I can build on what you have done.

Regards

Ben

starbits wrote: This works, although not exactly as I had hoped:

{module_action_link module='Products' action='details' productid="1"}

It does not give any errors just the word "Products", which is a link that when clicked, will give you the details of the item you specify.  I was hoping it would give the details directly without needing to click on the "Products" link.

Dear Steve,

I got this to work like this:

{Products action='details' viewdetailstemplate="sample" productid="1"}

where "sample" is the name of the detail template that you want to use

Let me know if it does the trick.

Regards

Ben

Congratulations Ben!  Nice job.  On my newer version, the tag works like this:
{Products action='details' detailtemplate="somename" productid="1"} 

Also I have now specified my own template as the default template, and once I did that, the tag works even without the "detailtemplate" option.

I guess the conclusion is that you cannot specify the action="details" until you have a new detail template of your own.  As far as I am concerned you can mark this as SOLVED.  Thanks for the help.

Steve

starbits wrote: Congratulations Ben!  Nice job.  On my newer version, the tag works like this:
{Products action='details' detailtemplate="somename" productid="1"} 

Also I have now specified my own template as the default template, and once I did that, the tag works even without the "detailtemplate" option.

I guess the conclusion is that you cannot specify the action="details" until you have a new detail template of your own.  As far as I am concerned you can mark this as SOLVED.  Thanks for the help.

Steve

Thanks for the improved "final answer"

=> Solved