Featured Categories
We have added the option to show a responsive image gallery of the featured category events. For this to be most effective you’ll need to have a good image loaded for each SHOW category.
It's important to know that the arrangement/sort order is now related to the DATE PICKER settings in v9
There is a setting to choose manual sort order over the unix timestamp
Another thing to know is the Bootstrap responsive column rules are hardcoded in the featured/nested category modules ...so if you want a more elaborate grid to your Event display you'll want to edit those files directly.
Email support if this is important to you and you want it to be different than the default
In v9 there is the option to have an overlay of text (category name) over the category image.
This can be enabled Admin>Products>Advanced>Category Products>Disable Overlay=NO
Admin>Marketing>Options>Show Featured Categories on Mainpage = true
Now at Admin>Products>Advanced>Category Products for v9
we can display all the ACTIVE events as clickable images with text and short descriptions on mouseover.
The ACTIVE images are the LIVE events you have listed
(active ‘green’ button in Admin>Concert Details)
We can omit all Homepage data Admin>CMS>Homepage>Edit and simply have the featured categories the first information your visitors see at the homepage…..as Featured Categories/Events
Furthermore we can also activate a Left Column InfoBox>Featured Categories and have a random featured category image to further publicize events in your osConcert
Featured Products
Similar to the Featured Categories we can do the same for certain Featured (GA) Products In Admin>Products>Featured>Featured GA Products>New Products
This is useful if you have only one GA product in its own category such as a single General Admission event with a quantity. Otherwise be careful how you use this feature….it may not be suitable.
We can select products from our GA stock and have them be featured as a ‘responsive’ clickable image gallery when we activate the Admin>Products>Advanced>Category Products>Show Featured Products = true
As with Featured Categories we can also activate a Left Column InfoBox>Featured to show random featured products (Ga products/events)
Warning: If this option is enabled and there are no featured products selected, osConcert will show some text – sorry nothing here!
It also worth mentioning that there is an Expiry Date feature for each selected product. It may be useful for selling merchandise products also.
If you want the Featured Categories ABOVE the Home/Mainpage Text....the file to edit is templates/content/index_default.tpl.php