Hey Deepak, Factoids is a content box in ecommerce ofbiz, which is allready implemented. This box is shown in all places in the store at the right or left panel i.ex. The content is defined in backend CMS, where about 6 contens are allready defined. The box is now configured (in ftl), that this shows randomly 2 contents out of the 6 available. The content is as you prefer, like a banner with anchor, or just text as information...
at the moment it is used for like "did you know?..." and shows some news. But this is just an example of a content box. with that you can find how to handle it. Cause it is not in my focus actually, I just looked in the past how it works - was not difficult, but I allready forgot that :) just follow the files... So at this point this box is shown everywere. But it can be interesting to show it just in specific categories, or to show specific content in it, depending of the categories, or products and so on. So you can write functions to show specific content boxes just in specific situations (specific category etc.)...thats the way I think it can works. You probably can name the content in CMS like: cat_content_*hereyourcategoryid * than write i.ex. a function, where you search for all contents (which are not expired) which start wit cat_content_ and than split the name to get the category id. Than you can display it depending on the id value, so you do not have to change your code when you want to display it elsewere. With that you can just use CMS, and tell your employee, that they have to use the name convention...do you know how i mean it? For my work I would use it for a slider at the main page, where I want to put a picuter in it, and link to products, categories, content etc. Kindly Deepak Agarwal-2 wrote > > Hi Robert, > > Could you please explain your understanding with this and also about > factoids. > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Robert G. <gan@> wrote: > >> Ah you mean I shall do it with Content screens ... just like "factoids" >> or >> sth...right? >> >> good idea! >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Best-practices-to-show-banners-tp4632580p4634653.html >> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Deepak Agarwal, >> >> Paxcel Technologies Pvt Ltd. >> Hartron Complex, Sector 18, Gurgaon, India. >> E-Mail: deepak.agarwal@ >> Mobile: +91 9910322604 >> >> > -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Best-practices-to-show-banners-tp4632580p4635233.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
