Related products slider: Custom sorting #536
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently in Dynamicweb Swift templates, the Related Products Slider does not support manual sorting of related products. The order shown on the front-end cannot be controlled through the product relations defined in the back-end.
For marketing purposes, controlling the order of related products is important. Without sorting control, we are limited in our ability to optimize the product presentation.
Describe the solution you'd like
We would like the ability to define the order of related products in the backend and have this order respected by the Swift Related Products Slider on the front-end.
Describe alternatives you've considered
We explored the current workaround of using the Related Products Slider/Grid query settings with the “Sort By” field. While this allows sorting by fields like name, it does not follow the manually defined order of product relations and therefore does not provide sufficient control for marketing use cases.
Additional context
The ability to manually control related product order would improve:
- Cross-selling logic
- Product workflow presentation (step-based order)
- Marketing campaigns and featured products
Currently this functionality is not available in Swift templates, which is why we are submitting this feature request.