Ecom product list - user controlled sorting

Jens Jakob Kristensen

Posted on 13/02/2013 09:50:24

Hi all,

I am not sure whether or not this functionality is already doable, but I find it very useful on other shops, so I would like to report it as a feature request.

Frontend user functionality:

On a product list page with misc. filtering options, the user should be able to control the sorting of the filtered products. Like a dropdown menu at the top, where the user can select "Lowest price first/Highest price first" etc. Basically the same sorting options as are available for the administrator back-end right now. When adjusting the fintering again after having adjusted the sorting, the sorting should not have to be readjusted again. The user-adjusted sorting should not change when the user uses the filters agein.

The current possibilities:

It is possible now to manually adjust the sorting by adding something like this in the URL: SortBy=Price&SortOrder=ASC. But these parameters are lost when adjusting the filtering again.

So I am requesting DW to develope the functionality for user controlled sorting of product lists, based on the same parameters available back-end. The trick is to make the chosen sorting stick, so the system will "remember" this sorting option on this given page at this given session.

I hope this makes sense and you guys will take this into consideration, as it is a useful functionality and it is rather common across webshops worldwide.

Thank you in advance

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Morten Bengtson

Posted on 13/02/2013 17:09:35

Do you mean something like the sorting implemented in dynamicwebs solution set templates?

http://solutionset.dynamicweb.dk/en-US/ProductList/Bikes/Mountain-bikes.aspx?SortBy=Name&SortOrder=ASC

Jens Jakob Kristensen

Posted on 14/02/2013 08:30:02

Yes, that kind of functionality. I wasn't aware of DW having implemented it on their SS. Thank you for the info :-)

I assume this functionality is custom made since I cannot see any way of tweaking this in the standard module settings or eCom settings in Man. Center.

Does anyone know if this requires a custom module or if it can be handled in a simpler way?

Although there might be some sort of an issue with the product data for PRODID=10016 when sorting by the lowest price. It is listed as second in the list :-)

http://solutionset.dynamicweb.dk/en-US/ProductList/Bikes/Mountain-bikes.aspx?SortBy=Price&SortOrder=ASC

Morten Bengtson

Posted on 14/02/2013 08:47:34

Everything you see on solution set is built with standard functionality. You can get a copy from the downloads section, set it up locally and have a closer look at how things are implemented. There is a lot of great template tricks in the solution set that you can steal and reuse on other sites :)

And yes, the price sorting is a bit weird. I think that it is because they sort on the default price, but display another price.

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