Portlets¶
This section describes the concept of portlets in general and the default portlets in detail.
Overview¶
A Portlet is a piece of arbitrary information which can be assigned to every object, like shop, products, categories and pages. They are displayed in slots. A slot can have an arbitrary amount of Portlets. LFS ships with a left and a right slot and several default portlets. By default portlets are inherited from parent objects but it is also possible to block parent portlets per slot.
The inheritance path for categories and products is:
shop > category > sub category > product
The inheritance path for pages is:
shop > page root > page
Default Portlets¶
This section describes all default portlets of LFS with their particular settings and properties.
Average Rating¶
This portlet displays the average rating of a product.
- Title
- The title of the portlet.
Categories Portlet¶
This portlet displays the category tree, which is the essential navigation for the shop.
- Title
- The title of the portlet.
- Start Level
- The starting level of categories. If this is
2
the top level categories are not displayed within the portlet. This can be useful if you want to display them in the horizontal menu. - Expand Level
- Expands the categories up to this level. If this is
0
only the current category will be expanded. If this is1
all top level categories are expanded, etc.
Note
top level categories have level 1, their sub categories have Level 2, etc.
Delivery Time¶
This portlet displays the delivery time of a product.
- Title
- The title of the portlet.
Featured Products¶
This portlet displays products, which are selected within Marketing / Featured
- Title
- The title of the portlet.
- Limit
- Only the given amount of products are displayed.
- Use current category
- If this is checked only the featured product of the current category are displayed.
- Slideshow
- If this is checked the products are displayed with a slideshow, i.e. a single product which is exchanged automatically). If this is unchecked all products are display at once.
Filter¶
This portlet displays a filter portlet for a category.
- Title
- The title of the portlet.
- Show Product Filters:
- If this is checked product filters are displayed. To make this work properly the products assigned to the category must filterable properties and there must be values assigned to them.
- Show price filters:
- If this is checked price filters are displayed (which are automatically calculated).
For Sale¶
This portlet displays products which are for sale.
- Title
- The title of the portlet.
- Limit
- Only the given amount of products are displayed.
- Use current category
- If this is checked only the featured product of the current category are displayed.
- Slideshow
- If this is checked the products are displayed via a slideshow, i.e. only one product at once which is exchanged automatically. If this is unchecked all products are display as a list.
Latest Products¶
Display the products that were recently added to the shop
- Title
- The title of the portlet.
- Limit
- Only the given amount of products are displayed.
- Use current category
- If this is checked only the latest products of the current category are displayed.
- Slideshow
- If this is checked the products are displayed with a slideshow, i.e. a single product which is exchanged automatically). If this is unchecked all products are display at once.
Text¶
This portlet displays arbitrary HTML.
- Title
- The title of the portlet.
- Text
- The HTML code which is supposed to be displayed.
Top Seller¶
This portlet displays the top seller of the shop.
- Title
- The title of the portlet.
- Limit
- Only the given amount of products are displayed.