If you look at the details of the view being called, you'll see what the product_list change you're making won't work.
http://www.bitbucket.org/chris1610/satchmo/src/tip/satchmo/apps/satchmo_store/shop/views/home.py What you ideally need to do is copy the home.home view to a new location and modify the featured variable to return the list you'd like. Does that make sense? -Chris On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Sachin Goel <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried out the stuff mentioned at that link in the way mentioned below. > > I updated urls.py at satchmo/projects/<myproject> with : > > *from django.conf.urls.defaults import * > > from satchmo_store.urls import urlpatterns > > from satchmo_utils.urlhelper import replace_urlpattern > from product.models import Product > > product_list = [] > > replacement = url(r'^$', 'satchmo_store.shop.views.home.home', > {'all_products_list': product_list}, 'satchmo_shop_home') > replace_urlpattern(urlpatterns, replacement)* > > Please notice that I am passing an empty product list to the index.html but > still it is displaying all the featured products..I believe I am missing > something big time here.. > > > >> http://www.satchmoproject.com/docs/dev/customization.html#changing-views >> >> Feel free to ask more if that isn't enough for you. >> Alex >> >> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Sachin Goel <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have two categories of products on my website. Instead of going with >> the >> > default representation of featured products on the home page, I want to >> > present 5-5 products from both categories. >> > I have copied index.html to my project template location and modified >> it. >> > But I am not able to find out, how to over-ride the default home view. I >> > have tried modifying the view at : >> > satchmo/apps/satchmo_store/shop/views/home.py, but to no effect. >> > Please guide me how to over-ride a view for the Satchmo application, as >> it >> > will be required extensively for my application. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Sachin. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "Satchmo users" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected]<satchmo-users%[email protected]> >> . >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. >> > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Satchmo users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<satchmo-users%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Satchmo users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<satchmo-users%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en.
