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12 years 11 months ago #31923

Hi,

Here are few "how to" questions which I was unable to find an answer for:

    Is there a way to turn off the display of a "standard" field on product page on a front end? Quantity field comes to mind.
    Is there a way to configure that per say categories of products?
    Is there a way to specify the charset for .csv export? I am using Czech special characters (and I believe ISO-8859-2 charset) and export of description with special Czech characters is not working.
    Is there a way to configure on product listing page to display product name, product image and part of product description only (i.e. not whole product description)?

Last but not least, can someone recommend me a good template to work with HikaShop (suitable for hobby games store)?

Thanks,

Karol

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12 years 11 months ago #31943

Hi,

1. That can be turned off by changing the option "Display the quantity field on the product page" to "No display" in the Display tab of the configuration.
2. No, that option is global. If you know PHP you could do it by editing the code but otherwise that's not possible.
3. By default HikaShop export the CSVs as UTF8. There is no option to export them in a different charset. However UTF8 supports all the languages and most of the CSV tools out there should support UTF8. You should check the options of your tool. You should be able to select UTF8 as charset when opening the CSV so that the characters display properly.
4. Yes. First in your products listing menu/module's hikashop options, you should change the item box layout to "image and description". Then, in your products description, you should add a read more link like in joomla articles and only the text before the read more link will be displayed on the listing.
5. HikaShop can work with any joomla template (although the rockettheme templates use a lot of javascript and can cause problems in HikaShop so you might want to avoid them).

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12 years 11 months ago #33371

Thanks Nicolas, I was able to sort out most of my problems from previous post.

Here's another batch of questions:

1) For different products I would need to have different designations visible in product image like "New", "Sale", "Recommended", "Used" etc (displayed as say stripe in top right corner of the picture). Is there a posibility to set something like that in Hikashop (the other option would be to spent time preparing that outside of Hikashop and then tediously update the picture depending on the current situation.

2) Can I configure Hikashop product search to display products in similar manner as they're displayed in Product list page? Currently, the result returned by Hikashop product search plugin returned items as headings of an article. Basically, I would like to be able to display product picture within product search result.

3) I would like to setup two states of the product quantity within a hikashop:

a) In stock. Expected delivery Y days.
b) Out of stock. Expected delivery Z days (I would use similar functionality for preorders of newly released products as well).

I would need for both cases to allow customers to add products in the cart.

Is this at all possible with Hikashop?

4) Is there a possibility to display "more" button or "..." characters or "more information" link in product list when I am using readmore functionality?

5) How can I change certain elements of the product list display like font usage for the product name or layout of the product box (I would like to display product name in smaller font above the product image which I currently can't).

Thanks,

Karol

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12 years 11 months ago #33420

Hi,

1. There is nothing for that in HikaShop for now. You would indeed have to update the images manually.

2. That search result page is a joomla result search page. So HikaShop has no control over its display. It can only feed data results to it.
Alternatively, you could use a HikaShop filter instead of the joomla search module. The results of a filter are displayed as a HikaShop products listing so you can display them the way you want, with the normal options of HikaShop menus
More information on filters there: www.hikashop.com/en/support/101-hikashop-filter-listing.html

3. You can have products in stock and out of stock. However, out of stock products cannot be purchased.
I don't see any easy way to do that for now. That would require some deep changes to handle properly negative quantities of products.

4. Yes. Like that:
www.hikashop.com/en/support/forum/4-how-...ml?limit=20&start=20

5. For the product name style, you should add some CSS in the front end CSS file of HikaShop that you can edit via the tab Display of the configuration. For the layout, you can change the item box layout in the hikashop options of your products listing module/menu

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12 years 11 months ago #33790

Nicholas,

See my reply to various items:

1) OK.

2) OK, will try the filters at some point.

3) I don't actually need negative quantities. If the item is "preorder" or if it has to be ordered from supplier the quantity of the product is effectively unlimited. I will probably go with custom fields functionality for this one (to describe various statuses) and see how it goes.

4) Thanks. Works for me.

5) Sorted out by fiddling around with the template I am using.

Another question:

When I change in the global configuration Modules main default options and Default parameters for DIVs that parameters than get applied for new product lists that I create onward. Is there a way to apply that retroactively or where can I flush out custom configuration for product list?

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12 years 11 months ago #33805

It's not done retroactively and there is no option for that. However, each menu and module has its own options that you can edit via the menus Display->Content modules/menus and you will find there the same options.

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12 years 11 months ago #33813

Nicolas,

Is this configuration easily updateable in the database (I've looked around DB tables a bit but couldn't find anything obvious)? I have cca. 100 - 200 modules / menus and configuring those manualy via backend would be really tedious work.

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Karol

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12 years 11 months ago #33845

It cannot be done via the database. The options are serialized and base64 in the table hikashop_config so you won't be able to change them via phpmyadmin.

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