Hi, I’m building an ecommerce site for a client. Using CMS “product” collection pages, I’m trying to build in more customizable text fields into the layout.
The problem:
How do I symbol overridable fields to have different content over different “product” collection pages? Or how do I get a similar result?
I’m not sure if I should use conditional visibility for content of every different product (wouldn’t the site have to load every element anyways, reducing loading time and SEO? It would also make long term maintenance a hassle.) I don’t think piling on a lot more CMS properties is the best either, especially since a lot of HTML elements do not map 1:1 across products. Cloning and rerouting (by 301?) to separate product pages I think defeats the purpose of a CMS ready page.
Can you explain in a little more detail what you are trying to achieve?
If you have varying product collection pages, you should use specific cms elements that fit that content.
Symbols are best used for content that is repeating over multiple pages, if that content differs, symbols might not be the best solution.
For tech products, I need to list specs and other rich media details. To do this all through CMS fields in my “Products” collection feels like it shouldn’t be the best (or only?) solution?
I’m having the same problem here and I’ve seem on others threads that everyone seems to imply that we aren’t understanding how to use symbols or CMS. But it’s pretty straightforward.
I want to use the same structure in different pages. That’s the symbol. I want the information used on these structures to vary with the page. That’s the CMS.
The solution it comes to mind is to create an override for the CMS content inside the symbol so I can change the content of it according to the page. But this is not possible.
Bump, same issue here. I have a collection with say 10 items, I want to display only 5 specific of them that have multi reference “A” in one symbol instance, but reference “B” in other symbol instance. How to achieve this?