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    Ideas for Related Items Alternative

    We have about 4000 products online. We assign related items to each product, but throughout the years, products are discontinued, and they still show under related items on other product pages if initially added as a related item. About once a year, we have to have someone go in and un-relate discontinued items.

    To combat this, I would love to be able to just feature the top 5 or 6 best-selling or even random items within that product category, which would be generated automatically.
    We're not interested in 3rd Party software (but modules would be ok). We do have tool kit v5.2050.

    Just curious as to what others do and/or recommend.

    Thank you.

    #2
    Re: Ideas for Related Items Alternative

    Viking coders HAD a great module for related items, called related items from purchase history. It took the actual sales data from items that were "bought together" and automatically added them in the order from most purchased to least purchased.

    Sadly, then never updtaed that for MM5 (and certainly not for MM9).

    It was able to deterine if a product was out of stock or not, and if it was out of stock, it would not show that product in the related items list.

    There are benefits and drawbacks to using a feature that automatically list those most frequently purchased items. But for MY purposes, it was great.

    I would love, Love, LOVE it if that was one day added natively to Miva Merchant.
    Mark Romero
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      #3
      Re: Ideas for Related Items Alternative

      Could you wrap your related product in a conditional to test if it's active

      Code:
      <mvt:foreach iterator="product" array="related_products:products">
      
          <mvt:if expr="l.settings:product:active">
      
          ...
      
          </mvt:if>
      
      </mvt:foreach>
      http://www.alphabetsigns.com/

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        #4
        Re: Ideas for Related Items Alternative

        OK, finally got back to this. I was able to use tool kit, and can set it up to show product from the entire store. However, we do not want to show any products from one certain category (called Discontinued). How do we exclude product from this certain category from showing? Everything else is working beautifully.

        Thank you,


        <mvt:item name="toolkit" param="randomall|pcount|4" />
        <mvt:if expr="pcount GT 0"> <mvt:item name="hdft" param="header" />
        <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><B>MORE POPULAR ITEMS</font>
        <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3">
        <tr valign="top" align="center">
        <mvt:foreach iterator="sub_product" array="sub_products">
        <td><mvt:if expr="NOT ISNULL l.settings:sub_product:thumbnail"></mvt:if>
        <table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
        <tr>
        <th height="100" valign="top" scope="col"><div align="center"><a href="&mvt:global:secure_sessionurl;Screen=PROD&Pr oduct_Code=&mvta:sub_product:code;"><img src="&mvt:sub_product:thumbnail;" border="0"></a></div></th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
        <td valign="top"><div align="center"><a href="&mvt:global:secure_sessionurl;Screen=PROD&Pr oduct_Code=&mvta:sub_product:code;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">&mvt:sub_product:name;</font></a> <br>
        <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">&mvt:sub_product:formatted_price;</font></div></td>
        </tr>
        </table>
        </td>
        </mvt:foreach>
        </tr>
        </table>
        </mvt:if>

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