[fractalspin]

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):

{$products[product].product}

and ADD this after it:

{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:

{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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