Setting Up the Block View Format
Use
You use the block view format in a B2C Web shop to enable a detailed upfront presentation of products in your product catalog, personalized product recommendations, and global product recommendations. The block view allows you to include more information about a product at first glance for the customer than the list view does. For example, you can display basic eye-catcher texts, price eye-catcher texts, and hyperlinks to product details in the block view. In addition the paging function is also available.
Prerequisites
You are using the stylesheet b2c.css for your shop. The stylesheet has been especially adapted to enable you to use the block view in the customizing layout.
Procedure
The following Customizing settings fare available for the block view in Extended Configuration Management (XCM):
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1. Log on to XCM at http://<server:port>/b2c/admin/xcm/init.do.
2. Choose Start -> Components -> Customer -> ui.
3. Adjust the following parameters to suit your requirements:
Parameter |
Description |
CatalogArea.ShowAsBlockView |
Controls whether the products of a catalog area are displayed in a block view, or in a list view |
CatalogArea.BlockView.MaxRows |
Maximum number of rows used to display products in the catalog area |
CatalogSearch.ShowAsBlockView |
Controls whether the products of a catalog search are displayed in a block view or a list view |
CatalogSearch.BlockView.MaxRows |
Maximum number of rows used to display products in the catalog search |
PersonalRecommendations.ShowAsBlockView |
Controls whether the personalized recommendations are displayed in a block view, or in a list view |
PersonalRecommendations.BlockView.MaxRows |
Maximum number of rows used to display the personalized recommendations in the block view |
GlobalRecommendations.ShowAsBlockView |
Controls whether the global recommendations are displayed in a block view, or in a list view |
GlobalRecommendations.BlockView.MaxRows |
Maximum number of rows used to display the global recommendations in the block view |
Catalog.BlockView.MaxColumns |
Maximum number of columns used to display the products in a block view |
Catalog.ListView:MaxItems |
Maximum number of item rows to be displayed in the list view of a catalog |
Catalog.Page:MaxPageLinks |
Maximum number of page links in the page link area |