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[4ideas]

Hi,

Can anyone help me with the adding of extra field values in the recommended products area ?
After reading some posts on the forum I've edited the common_files/customer/simple_products_list.tpl and added
{$product_links[cat_num].extra_fields[1].value}
also tryed {$product_links.extra_fields[1].field_value}
and {$product.extra_fields[1].field_value}

none of witch work.

I got this to work in the home page in the featured products after following the instructions here
{$product.extra_fields[2].field_value} works fine there.

Obviously I'm doing something wrong... but what ?

Would really appreciate any help.
Cheers

[JWait]

I'm trying to figure out why you would want extra fields in the recommended products. All it does is link to a product, and they are generated randomly. Do you mind my asking what you plan on using the extra field(s) for?

[4ideas]

On the extra fields i have some product details (shape, brand, etc) and i want them to show up just like in the featured items. Now i only have the product thumb and title.

[4ideas]

got it to work like this {$recommends[0].extra_fields[1].value} only it sets the same field value for all the products in the recommended area.
Is there a way to specify an index or something ?
tried with {$recommends[index].extra_fields[1].value} but it doesn't work.

any ideas ?

SOLVED:
added a counter before the foreach statement in simple_products_list
{assign var="counter_rec" value=-1}

and used it in the listing
{assign var="counter_rec" value=$counter_rec+1 }
<ul>
<li>{$recommends[$counter_rec].extra_fields[1].value}</li>
<li>{$recommends[$counter_rec].extra_fields[2].value}</li>
<li>{$recommends[$counter_rec].extra_fields[3].value}</li>
<li>{$recommends[$counter_rec].extra_fields[4].value}</li>
</ul>