Short Description Always Blank

General General Questions
1

Hi, I am trying to display the short discription on my category pages. In previous V3xx this worked fine. But, for new version 4.3.4 "$product.short_description" is always blank? I have added following lines to the tpl files I want the short description to appear in:

{$product.short_description nofilter}

But, nothing is displayed. Have checked in debugger, and "$product.short_description" template variable is always blank.

Do I have to enable "$product.short_description" to be populated with data somewhere? Seems like the php code is not copying the short description to this variable.

2

On category pages, the amount of product data is very limited. You will either have to modify the '$params' that are passed to fn_get_product_data() from the 'categories' controller or use a hook to adjust the '$fields' that are returned. But be sure you check if the $field is already being returned before adding it since different controllers will use different sets of data.

3

Thanks, got it working!