Widget zone

Information

nopCommerce Widget zone represents a place for some extra functions displaying. Almost each nopCommerce page contains one or more widget zones. Usually it's page top (example: home_page_top) and page bottom (example: home_page_bottom).

After installation plugin has one automatically created widget zone home_page_top.

Properties

• Name. Widget zone user friendly name. This field use only for admins and make widget zone search process bit simple;
• SystemName. Widget zone system name. Here admin should put widget zone system name. The field value determines slider position in nopCommerce site. For example: widget zone with system name home_page_top located on site home page top, slider for widget zone with system name home_page_bottom located at home page bottom side. Important! This property has autocomplete list with all standard nopCommerce widget zone names. You willn't see any other widget zone names in this list. If you create your special widget zone you need to put it name manually;
• Arrow navigation. Configure slider arrow navigation displaying type.
• • None - don't display slider arrow navigation;
• • On mose hover - display slider arrow navigation when mouse pointer move across slider sheet;
• • Always - display slider arrow navigation always;
• Bullet navigation. Configure slider bullet navigation displaying type.
• • None - don't display slider bullet navigation;
• • On mose hover - display slider bullet navigation when mouse pointer move across slider sheet;
• • Always - display slider bullet navigation always;
• Auto Play. With this flag slider will change slides automatically;
• • Autoplay interval. Automatical slide change interval (in milliseconds);
• Max width. Slider maximum width;
• Min width. Slider minimum width;
• Slide duration. How much time slide need for change (in milliseconds);
• Min drag offset. Minimum mouse drag distance for slide change (in pixels);
• Slide spacing. Distance between slider slides (in pixels);
• Published. Slider publish marker. Widget zone slider published when marker is true;

Slides

Each public side visible widget zone has one or more slides. Slide collection displays on edit widget zone page. You can add to widget zone so much slides as you want.

Mappings

Widget zone visibility can be limited for some stores and customer roles.

• Limited to customer roles. List of customer roles which can see widget zone slider. Don't forget to switch on ACL limitations in your site settings;
• Limited to stores. List of stores where widget zone slider will be visible. Don't forget switch on store limitations in your site settings;