Products technical specs - categories?

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13 years 1 month ago #27854

Hello
I downloaded and installed Hikashop on my joomla 1.7 however I dont see how to do what I need.
I am selling paintings and basically I need add tech specs to my products. Currently there is weight, lenght, width etc.. But I am creating an online store for paintings and I need to show diferent specs. The main spec would be "digital paintings" and "hand made paintings". And inside these would be the secondary specs such as color, tecnique, author, type, etc.. I tried adding these as categories but I dont think this si going to work.
Because what i am looking for is that each product shows its tech specs (main and secondary) and I need to be able to search and filter for these. Is this posible with HikaShop?
I also noticed that some tech specs that are there like width and height, dont show up in the product page and I cant find how to make these show up?? is this posible?? Instead of just showing price and name to have it show also the tech specs, like for example in Virtuemart?

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13 years 1 month ago #27872

Hi,

In the tab Display of the configuration, you have the option "Dimensions display" which you can turn on to display the dimensions on the product page.
If you want to add more information to your products, you can create custom fields of the table "product" via the menu Display->Custom fields (in our commercial editions only):
www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...p-field-listing.html
With our search plugin, when your users search via the joomla search module, the search will be made on the fields you selected in the configuration of the search plugin. So if you selected your custom fields to be searchable, it will do what you want.
If however you don't want to use the normal search screen, but you want to have an advanced filtering of the products, you would have to configure filters on your custom fields (in the business edition only):
www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...-filter-listing.html

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13 years 1 month ago #28035

Thank you for your reply. I can see that for some things I would need the comercial or business version.
However I turned on the "Dimensions Display" for the products and it does show in the products page but not in the products_listing page, which is what I want. I guess I could add it in the description, but it would be nice if it could be shown there too.
Another thing that I am having an issue with is the position on the product listing menu item, is there a place where I can specify the position of the product listing menu item? bacuse I dont see a product listing module anywhere? Same thing goes for the product page, once I click on a product in the list and go to the product page I want to specify in wich position it should be showing the product instead of the default.
Thank you.

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13 years 1 month ago #28069

The dimension option is only there to display the dimensions on the product page.
If you want to display them on the products listing, you will need to go to the menu Display->Views and edit one of the files of the view "product" (it depends on which layout you're using to display the products listing) and add some code to display the dimensions.

Your products listing is a menu. A menu cannot be at the same time a module :)
If you want to make it a module, you should create instead a module and not a menu. You can do that via the module manager by creating a new module of the type hikashop content module:
www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...html#products_module

A product page can only be displayed in the main area of your template. It's not possible to do it differently.

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13 years 1 month ago #28072

So to add dimensions to the products listing I would have to add some .php code, I am not an expert in php is it easy to add this code? any tips?
I also noticed there are no css files? how can I edit the css? for example I want to add some margin or padding to the images displayed, I also need to change the size of the image in the products page.

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13 years 1 month ago #28074

OK, I found the CSS.
I am trying to figure out now what code to add in the php file to add height and width in product listing. However I was just told that I cant have multiple pages of products in a module of products, so I have to go back to using the menu, but as you said I cant have the menu of product listing appear on a specific position :( so now I dont know how to solve this problem? I dont understant why I cant have multiple pages in my product module? how can I solve this??

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13 years 1 month ago #28100

The CSS can be edited in the Display tab of the configuration.

The width and height of the images can be configured in the hikashop options of your menu/module.

A module cannot have several pages, it's not meant for that. Menus should be used to display listings of products with several pages. One thing I just thought of would be to use the carousel mode:
www.demo.hikashop.com/index.php?option=c...5&Itemid=103&lang=en
With it, you can have several slides on your modules (a bit like pages but everything is loaded on the page and the switch from one slide to the other is done via javascript).

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