Page Builder Product Carousel to show new products (regardless of category)

[netblazon]

Is there any way to have a page builder product carousel show X new products from across the entire store? Right now it seems to be a specific category, or specific products, but not just the most recently-added X number of products.

[Brennan]

Not today. You could create a category that all products get assigned to, then use that to link up to the PageBuilder Component.

[netblazon]

Not today. You could create a category that all products get assigned to, then use that to link up to the PageBuilder Component.

Thanks, I had thought of that too, and it's probably what we will go with.

[Kent Multer]

Not today. You could create a category that all products get assigned to, then use that to link up to the PageBuilder Component.

The Product Carousel component's settings include an on/off slider labeled "Select a category." What happens if you turn it off?

[netblazon]

The Product Carousel component's settings include an on/off slider labeled "Select a category." What happens if you turn it off?

If you turn that off, nothing shows up.

[Nick]

Hey netblazon , attached you will find a copy of the mmx-product-carousel with the option to add the newest products.

Using this guide, https://github.com/mivaecommerce/fle...-components.md, I duplicated the mmx-product-carousel flex component then added a new function in the JavaScript to pull the newest products. I also updated the flex.json file to add a new property for the newest products.

The attached file is just a zip file but you can unzip the file then compress using the command line action found here.

Let me know if you have any questions about the custom component or if there are any issues.

[netblazon]

Thanks Nick, I'll give that a shot!

[netblazon]

Nick: So far so good, but this store somehow has all its flex components stuck on 10.06.00 while the site itself is on 10.07. I opened a support ticket to deal with this.

[Nick]

Nick: So far so good, but this store somehow has all its flex components stuck on 10.06.00 while the site itself is on 10.07. I opened a support ticket to deal with this.

Susan, I thing support responded to your question but here is the answer for reference.

That will happen if the flex component was been updated before the 10.07 update. You can select the component and choose change version and update to 10.07 but that means all updates in the 10.06 version will be lost.

It can also happen if the component has been exported and reimported with the flex.json file having the setting of

"managed": false

. See step 4 here: https://github.com/mivaecommerce/fle...onent-your-own

[lesliekirk]

Nick: So far so good, but this store somehow has all its flex components stuck on 10.06.00 while the site itself is on 10.07. I opened a support ticket to deal with this.

OMG, that may explain a lot of issues with my dev site versus its live site. In the 10.07.01 dev site, all of the Flex Components are 10.06.00 and never updated. In the live site, they are all 10.07. How do I figure out why they didn't update? I didn't make any of these changes Nick mentioned.

[Nick]

OMG, that may explain a lot of issues with my dev site versus its live site. In the 10.07.01 dev site, all of the Flex Components are 10.06.00 and never updated. In the live site, they are all 10.07. How do I figure out why they didn't update? I didn't make any of these changes Nick mentioned.

You can use a diff checker and compare against the files in Miva. To view the files you will need to export the flex component and view the JS files in the compressed folder that is exported.

[netblazon]

OMG, that may explain a lot of issues with my dev site versus its live site. In the 10.07.01 dev site, all of the Flex Components are 10.06.00 and never updated. In the live site, they are all 10.07. How do I figure out why they didn't update? I didn't make any of these changes Nick mentioned.

Leslie, I don't know why mine didn't upgrade, and I didn't do the diff that Nick describes. However, I exported the components from my development site, which said 10.07.00 for all. I did have to click the "overwrite" button when importing them into the site that was stuck.

Also I had three components that were entirely missing from the batchlist screen, but I couldn't upload them without clicking the overwrite button...I don't know why they wouldn't show in the batchlist. But once I imported them from my dev site with overwrite checked, they showed up again.

It was a bit of a mess but it seems to have cleaned up fine.