Random auctions on mainpage sidebar??

izan · February 5th, 2005, 07:46 PM

Is there a feature in PPC to show running or random auctions on the main classifieds page sidebar - separate of the fixed price ads?

Chuck S · February 5th, 2005, 11:01 PM

The Classifieds has on the sidebar a random ad pal box

In your admin area find this and set to yes

Random Ad
Display Random Image?

izan · February 6th, 2005, 04:02 PM

Thanks for the quick reply, but that's not what I was looking for. There's two options I see in Admin; one is under:

Index Options
Show Random images on Index page?
I have it set to yes so it shows four random ads on the bottom of the pages.

The other is:
Sidebar Settings
Random Ad - Display Random Image?
I also have it set to yes. It shows one randomly selected ad in the sidebar.
These work as they should.

Basically what I'm looking for is a way to show only auction ads in their own side box - separate of any fixed price ads. Like a "Random Auctions" box in addition to the "Random Ads" box. I don't see a current way to do this.

Chuck S · February 6th, 2005, 06:01 PM

Then you would need to use one of the 3 extra custom pals and code up a box for that.

izan · February 8th, 2005, 02:59 PM

That's what I was looking for, works great! Thanks!

rcull · April 12th, 2006, 06:20 PM

I hope there will be a setting like this for a future release. Auctions need a hight profile to make them popular.

Maybe in the Recent Ads bar that can be placed at the top of the pages, there could be an optioin like "auctions" sorted by those ending soonest. If there are not enough auctions on a site to fill the boxes, they could be filled with "recent ads"

farina · July 15th, 2006, 09:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Then you would need to use one of the 3 extra custom pals and code up a box for that.

Can you explain how to do this...what need to replace

Chuck S · July 16th, 2006, 09:49 AM

You would place whatever code you want in the custom pal to achieve whatever you wish. You can ask the user to share his custom code if he chooses.

farina · July 16th, 2006, 10:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

You would place whatever code you want in the custom pal to achieve whatever you wish. You can ask the user to share his custom code if he chooses.

can anyone help me on this

rcull · February 12th, 2007, 10:12 PM

I wouldn't mind a set of detailed instructions either.

Chuck S · February 13th, 2007, 08:17 AM

If your asking how to write a code modification you might want to post in the code modification forums where users can interact with one another on stuff that falls outside product support.