To ensure that different products are displayed in two different Featured Products boxes you need to make use of the existing fields featuredflag & featuredflag2 in the Products table.
Setting up "Column Featured Products" using Layout Manager.
1. Login to admin and go to Website > Layout Manager
2. Create two "Column Featured Products" container box, we use ID #20 & ID #40 as example.
3. In the "Flag Field" of ID #20, enter "featuredflag" without quotes (This is to tell the system to display products which have the "featuredflag" set to True) - Refer to Image 1.
4. In the "Flag Field" of ID #40, enter "featuredflag2" without quotes - Refer to Image 2.
Setting up Products - Refer to Image 3.
For example, we would like to display CatalogID : 99 in container ID #20 and CatalogID : 100 in container ID #40
1. Go to Store > Products
2. Locate CatalogID : 99 and click on the Edit icon
3. At "Product Setup" page, click on the "Advanced Edit" link on the right
4. Locate the "featuredflag" field, enter "true" without quotes (If you are using MySQL or SQL Server, enter 1)
5. Locate the "featuredflag2" field, make sure the value is "false" ( 0 for MySQL and SQL Server)
6. click on "Update record" button to save.
7. Locate CatalogID : 100 and click on the Edit icon
8. At "Product Setup" page, click on the "Advanced Edit" link at the right
9. Locate the "featuredflag2" field, enter "true" without quotes (If you are using MySQL or SQL Server, enter 1)
10. Locate the "featuredflag" field, make sure the value is "false" ( 0 for MySQL and SQL Server)
11. click on "Update record" button to save.
12. You should now see CatalogID : 99 displayed in container ID #20 and CatalogID : 100 display in container ID #40
