Reusing productlist renderer

Posted on 10/05/2011 15:00:42

Hi,

I'm creating a search module that searches in eCom products, in a very specific way, with lots of search rules and more, but the result of my search is a "simple" ProductCollection.

Is it possible to use the Renderer class to get my result listed exactly like the product list template?

I'm looking for a way to skip around creating my own paging functionality, and since the product list has all the features i need, it would be ideal to use it as the base for my result output.

I tried this, but the output is missing a lot of tags:

Dynamicweb.eCommerce.Frontend.Renderer r = new Dynamicweb.eCommerce.Frontend.Renderer();
Dynamicweb.Templatev2.Template t = new Dynamicweb.Templatev2.Template( "TekniskSoegning/List.html" );

Dynamicweb.eCommerce.Products.ProductCollection prodList = new Dynamicweb.eCommerce.Products.ProductCollection();
prodList.Load( "SELECT TOP 10 * FROM EcomProducts" );

r.RenderProducts( prodList, t, "Results" );

return t.Output();

Has anyone done this before? Is it possible?

Regards
Martin

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Posted on 11/05/2011 05:38:32

Hi Martin,

I think is possible to reuse "RenderProducts". But you need add ParagraphSetting in your "Renderer" instance.

Posted on 11/05/2011 11:45:55

Hi,

I tried your suggestion and did this:
Dynamicweb.Templatev2.Template t = new Dynamicweb.Templatev2.Template( "TekniskSoegning/List.html" );
Dynamicweb.eCommerce.Frontend.Renderer r = new Dynamicweb.eCommerce.Frontend.Renderer();
r.ParagraphSettings = new Dynamicweb.eCommerce.Frontend.ProductCatalogSettings(1); // Paragraph 1 contains a EcomCatalog
r.RenderProducts( prodList, t );

But my output does not use my settings for pagesize and more.

I get these templatags out, but ever if my Pagesize is set to 15, all products are rendered and Next/PrevPage is empty:

0	1	1
1	23	" style="display:none;"
2	0
3	1	0
4	2	15
5	23	" style="display:none;"
6	0
7	1	0
8	0
9	0
10	1	0
11	1	0
12	0
13	74897	Vil søgning AnvendelseFilter Bolig (19)
14	0
15	1
16	0
17	0

Got any other ideas as to what might be missing?

Posted on 11/05/2011 11:46:53

Index	Tag	Copy	Length of value	Value (First 100 chars)
0	!-@Ecom:ProductList.CurrentPage--		1	1
1	!-@Ecom:ProductList.NextPage--		23	" style="display:none;"
2	!-@Ecom:ProductList.NextPage.Clean--		0
3	!-@Ecom:ProductList.PageProdCnt--		1	0
4	!-@Ecom:ProductList.PageSize--		2	15
5	!-@Ecom:ProductList.PrevPage--		23	" style="display:none;"
6	!-@Ecom:ProductList.PrevPage.Clean--		0
7	!-@Ecom:ProductList.TotalPages--		1	0
8	!-@Ecom:ProductList:Page.GroupID--		0
9	!-@Ecom:ProductList:Page.GroupName--		0
10	!-@Ecom:ProductList:Page.ID--		1	0
11	!-@Ecom:ProductList:Page.PID--		1	0
12	!-@Ecom:ProductList:Search.Query--		0
13	!-@Ecom:Search.SearchBox--		74897	Vil søgning AnvendelseFilter Bolig (19)
14	!-@LoopStart(ProductGroups)-->		0
15	!-@LoopStart(Products)-->		1
16	!-@LoopStart(eCom:Related.MostPopularProducts)-->		0
17	!-@LoopStart(CustomFieldList)-->		0

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 11/05/2011 12:04:11

This is how DW does it - think you are also missing the pageview instance:

Private renderer As Renderer
Private settings As ProductCatalogSettings
settings = New ProductCatalogSettings(Properties)

renderer = New Renderer(Pageview, ParagraphRow)
renderer.ParagraphSettings = settings

Return renderer.RenderProducts(pageProductColl)

In the Renderer constructor there is a paragraphrow .- that should not be needed.

Martin Nielsen

Posted on 12/05/2011 15:19:54

Hi Nicolai,

I've tried adding pageview to the renderer, but my pagesize and other settings still isn't applied to my output.

My code looks like this:
SearchResult resultat = GetResult( searchwords, searchLikeThis );
// List of products
Dynamicweb.eCommerce.Products.ProductCollection prodList = resultat.Products;
Dynamicweb.eCommerce.Frontend.Renderer r = new Dynamicweb.eCommerce.Frontend.Renderer( base.Pageview );
// Paragraph 1, is an ecomCatalog on a different page, that has the settings i want to use.
r.ParagraphSettings = new Dynamicweb.eCommerce.Frontend.ProductCatalogSettings( 1 );
r.RenderProducts( prodList, t );

Got any other ideas?

Regards
Martin

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