Requests for Manufacturer and Supplier management

I know. I was just reflecting on why we choose a different way of implementing the manufacturers management. Anyway look forward to it.

Just had a quick look at the manufacturer. Okay, using the category you save a lot of code repetition. However my comments are:

1) Missing the possibility to filter products by manufacturer in the back end. I know that many clients have a to update information pertaining to particular manufacturer and it is very convenient for them in for they can filter all the products by the manufacturer.
2) If you add a menu link starting the Joomla side there is no entry for manufacturer. I know you can choose either product or category then when setting the hikashop menu configuration you can set "Type of content" to manufacturer. It would be much more intuitive if there was a specific manufacturer link the Joomla menu tree
3) In the front end, while viewing a category product listing, it would be nice to be able to filter the results by manufacturer. I have hacked the front-end to do this. If you are interested in seeing these files let me know
4) Add the manufacturer name the product show page.

As always I look forward to your comments.

Regarding point 2, I was thinking the display of the products by manufacturer is very similar to product listing which is filtered by category, only in this case it is filtered by manufacturer. Currently we all manufacturers in the parent manufacturer category. We have not added any further structure to the hierarchy.

So could we not create a "product manufacturer" listing and in the product listing function add a way to filter by manufacturer instead of category?

In the case when manufacturers are organised into various different category we could modify the category list function so that it lists the manufacturer category listings instead of the category product listings?

Hello everyone

first of all.. I am amazed by HikaShop and thank you developers for such a great product.

I have "solved" a problem for displaying all items by manufacturer in my own way. I just created new category under root and manually add category to every product (but it is very time consuming)

I am not a programmer so I don't know if this can be done, or maybe it is already possible but I just don't know how to do it?

I run a small cosmetic shop and my structure looks like this:
(example):

root/lipsticks/manufacturer1, manufacturer2, .../products
root/nail_polish/manufacturer1, manufacturer2, .../products
.
.
.

I was thinking - for now I can only assign manufacturer1 category to it's parent category (lipsticks, nail polish...)

But if I could assign a manufacturer1 to some other category this could be solved very easily.

manufacturer1 from lipsticks, and manufacturer1 from nail_polish could be linked to root/manufacturers/manufacturer1

Then a menu link can be created - Category listing that would display all products by certain manufacturer (root/manufacturers/manufacturer1)

Basically - if a product can be assigned to multiple categories, maybe a category could be too? (not just a parent category)

I tried to write all as simple as possible:) I hope you can understand what I'm trying to say:)

Oh OK:)

I did assign my products to multiple categories as a workaround, and it workes perfectly.

It was just a thought.. it would save some time if I could assign categories to other than just parent:)

Keep up with great work!

Hi, as discussed in the previous posts in the this thread, we customised Hikashop for a client, so that they could manage suppliers and supplier prices in the back end. As you can see in the first 3 attachments, clicking on add in the Suppliers box would open a window, in which the user could select the supplier for that product, clicking Add would close the window and add a new line in the Supplier box with the name and currency filled out.

We are now working to update this functionality for version 2.6.0, which has implements an improvement in the interface and code, but we are having some difficulties in getting it to work. So far we have recreated the supplier box. The HIKASHOP_ADD_SUPPLIER button opens a popup window to select the supplier. We have created a javascript addSupplier function which inserts a new line with the supplier name and currency. However when we click on "Ok" in the popup window we are having difficulty in understanding the new logic for firing the addSupplier javascript function to add a new line to the supplier box with the supplier details while closing the popup window.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks, James

Hi Nicolas,

thanks for the pointer. We will look at this and let you know how we get on.

Thanks, James

Hi Nicolas,

we have updated the addsupplier php function which is attached. I have a couple of questions:

1) how do we fire our addSupplier javascript function
2) is it better to get the supplier data first as in the attached php function and pass it to the javascript function or get the supplier data via ajax call in the addSupplier javascript function?

Thanks, James

Hi Nicolas,

we have the javascript function window.productMgr.addSupplier in the form_supplier.php file. When we run the function addsupplier which is in the file product/ view.hmtl.php we have

$js = 'window.hikashop.ready(function(){window.parent.productMgr.addSupplier({suppliers:'.$output.'});});';

But is it not firing this function. Are we getting this completely wrong?

Okay we worked the logic out. We can open the popup window to choose the supplier and return to the parent window. The javascript addSupplier function is now being called. In our addSupplier function we are calling the hikashop dupRow javascript function to create a new row in the table.

Can we use the extraData variable in the dupRow function to insert the Supplier information we want to show in the new row? We could not find any example in the existing code where the extraData was used.

Thanks, James

Hi Nicolas,

your hint works perfectly, well almost perfectly . We tried using it to pass the supplier currency id. In the followoing code

cho $this->currencyType->display($form_key.'[{id}][supplier_currency_id]', '{SUPPLIER_CURRENCY}' , 'class="no-chzn"');

Probably I have not explained the problem very well. We are using hikashop dupRow javascript to add and extra row in the product supplier table. The row we add is

<tr class="row<?php echo $k; ?>" id="hikashop_<?php echo $form_key; ?>_tpl" style="display:none;">
			<td class="hikashop_supplier">
				<input type="hidden" name="<?php echo $form_key; ?>[{id}][supplier_id]" value="{SUPPLIER_ID}"/>
				<a href="<?php echo hikashop_completeLink('supplier&task=edit&cid='.@$supplier->supplier_id); ?>">{SUPPLIER_NAME}</a>
			</td>
<?php if($acls['code']){ ?>
            <td class="hikashop_supplier">
                <input size="10" type="text" name="<?php echo $form_key; ?>[{id}][supplier_product_code]" value="" />
            </td>
<?php }
	if($acls['currency']){ ?>
            <td class="hikashop_currency"><?php
				echo $this->currencyType->display($form_key.'[{id}][supplier_currency_id]', '{SUPPLIER_CURRENCY_ID}' , 'class="no-chzn"'); ?>
            </td>
<?php }
	if($acls['price']){ ?>
            <td class="hikashop_price">
              <input size="10" type="text" name="<?php echo $form_key; ?>{id}][supplier_product_price]" value="" />
            </td>
<?php }
	if($acls['active']){ ?>
            <td align="center">
               <input type="checkbox" name="<?php echo $form_key; ?>[{id}][supplier_active]" value="1" <?php echo !empty($supplier->supplier_active) ? 'checked="checked"' : ''; ?> />
            </td>
<?php } ?>
            <td>
				<a href="#" onclick="window.hikashop.deleteRow(this); return false;"><img src="<?php echo HIKASHOP_IMAGES; ?>delete.png" alt="<?php echo JText::_('HIKASHOP_DELETE'); ?>"></a>
            </td>
        </tr>