[TYPO3-commerce] Templating categories

[Bob Wild]

Hi, list,

Can anybody help me withmy problem, please? I'm stuck...


> Hi again,
> 
> Searching through the list I don't feel to be the only one who is a bit 
> confused about the marker system in the commerce templates and their 
> reactions to TypoScript.
> 
> I hope you can help me to clarify things.
> 
> in category_products.tmpl the standard way of calling the markers is:
> 
> ###CATEGORY_VIEW_DISPLAY### ,   this one calls the 
> ###CATEGORY_SUB_LIST### ,   which itself calls the
> ###CATEGORY_LIST###
> 
> and then - depending on the TS-config with templateMarkers, either one, 
> two or more
> 
> ###CATEGORY_ITEMS_LISTVIEW_[0|1|2|...]###
> 
> 
> My questions are:
> 1. Which content is the marker ###LANG_HEADER_ACTION### supposed to 
> display? I can't get it replaced by any content from my database. Am I 
> doing sth wrong?

Or better: Why is this one empty in the language.xml? I cannot figure 
what text it is supposed to show...

> 2. TemplateMarkers enable the use of different div-containers for the 
> Product display (odd - even). Is there any way that I can use the same 
> principle for displaying subcategories in ###CATEGORY-LIST###?
> 
> Having severeal subcategories, I would like to display 2 categories next 
> to each other. The different length of the texts results in different 
> lengths of the columns, which results in overlapping of subcategories. 
> The idea is to set a clear-div after every second subcategory - but this 
> seems not to be possible now. Or do I have a wrong understanding of the 
> system?
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
> 
> Regards, Robert