[ic] Need help building [item-param] tags

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Thomas J.M. Burton)]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed LaFrance" <edl@newmediaems.com>
To: <interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [ic] Need help building [item-param] tags


> I'm not sure I understand how this is supposed to work.  Is the [query]
> only supposed to return one row?  And what is feeding the [search-list]
here?
>
> - Ed L.


Sorry, I meant to mention that. A search form on another page is feeding the
[search-list]. That page also sets [value cat].

And yes, the query is returning one row with information about the category
being searched.

This catalog has several categories of product, each with a wide variation
of characteristics that need to be used to describe the products. Being able
to build an item's description from specified fields seems like a better
approach than having a description field in the product tables since that
would create redundant data.

In a previous version of this catalog, I used [if explicit] in any item
lists to pull together the proper fields based on which category the item
was in. This proved to be a pain whenever new product categories were added
because I had to add more conditions to each page template that displayed
product. For this rebuild, I'm trying to create a more flexible system where
category-specific elements are specified through a datatable rather than
within page templates.

I hope that clears things up. If you have any other questions about how it's
supposed to work, please ask and I'll try to explain better.

Thanks,
TJMB

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