X-Cart forums - Adding short descriptions to products in multicolumn view

OK, someone probably can figure out a more elegant way of doing this, but this is how I got the short description field to show up in multicolumn / thumbnail view.

For having the description ONLY on the multicolumn view and NOT the featured products, find this bit of code in xcar-dir/skin1/customer/main/products_t.tpl (~ line 30):

Code:

{$products[product].product}

and ADD this after it:

Code:



{if $main eq "catalog" and $current_category.category eq ""} 

        

{else}

        <FONT size="1">

        {$products[product].descr|truncate:300:"...":true}

        




        </FONT>

{/if}

To do the inverse, with the short description showing up only on the featured products, add this after that same bit of code instead:

Code:



{if $main eq "catalog" and $current_category.category eq ""} 

        <FONT size="1">

        {$products[product].descr|truncate:300:"...":true}

        




        </FONT>        

{else}

        

{/if}

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