Display vs. For Sale items... Need help thinking this out

Question

Hi,
Okay, here's the problem.  I have created a separate catalog called Museum  for joden.businesscatalyst.com
In that catalog is a sub catalog for Edwardian Jewelry.
These products are not for sale, but I want to display them.   
We also have a store with items in another catalog that are for sale.
It does not appear that I can create a separate template for Online Store Modules that can be used for the Museum catalog, for when I add this catalog to a menu, it creates a product display but also has Add to shopping cart  buttons and the large images also have the add to button.  Since there is no inventory or price, it won't be added, but I am wondering if there is a way to keep this inventory separate from our overall store, display it on a different Module when clicked, etc.   Basically what I need is a display area for not for sale items and a regular catalog for sale items.
http://joden.businesscatalyst.com/museum/edwardian-jewelry
My client says that any catalog, even though it is a separate catalog called museum, will interfere with our inventory for the store.
Not sure what to do  about this.  I could create static pages for sample items, but will lose our current museum of previously owned items and NFS items.
I could create a gallery of special items for each jewelry period (BTW,  the fact that the photo gallery uses a complete folder rather than selected items in a folder is a real problem).
None of these solutions seems to facilitate what I need to do.
I have another client I am thinking of moving to Business Cat with the same issue. He wants to display samples of his previous jewelry creations that are not for sale, but also needs a current inventory.
I'm starting to think BC is not going to be able to serve these larger clients.
Jeff

Answer 1

If you're wanting to remove the add to cart button from the template for products in a particular catalogues you're going to have to put something into place, BC won't do it for you in this case unfortunately.
You can use the backup list view or a custom template to remove the add to cart from them.
As for the detail view you just need to remove the '.moreoption' div - or if you don't want to show the price either then the 'prod_options' div.
You could utilise a custom field (from inside the product options) and fill it with something like 'noSale'.  Then in the CSS have '.noSale .moreoption { display: none }'
Add the custom tag field into your large product template somewhere at the top inside a class.
If you fill it in, it'll hide, if you don't, it won't.
There are other options, but this seems pretty easy. This also allows items in any catalogue to be not for sale, not anything specifically - so you could have multiple that are not for sale, multiple that are.
Justin / BCTemple.com