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dlarge
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12 years 3 weeks ago #71576

Firstly I'd like to say thanks for all the help from my previous posts - great support everyone - i just wished i'd bought the Business version earlier as its saved so much work and time!

1) I am creating a book store and have created a couple of custom fields in the product table named "Author" and "ISBN" Now I have been asked if a number of catagories can sort the products by the Author's surname automatically. Now I know I can create a filter and then sort by Author which will sort it fine by their firstname(i entered firstname - surname in the custom field) - so was thinking I would need to split the author into two fields "Firstname" and "Surname" but I need to display the full author name on the product page. Im guessing I would need to mess around with the code so it will display it all as one name? Can anyone think of a better way of doing this?

2) Related to the question above I would like the sorting to happen automatically without the end user having to click on the filter options? Is this possible? I would prefer not to have the filter button showing.

3) Lastly (for now!) I have created two variants of most of the products, being "Paperback" and "Hardback". Im wondering if I have done something wrong as when I do a search for a product(book) it returns three results, one being the main one, and the two variants, but effectively there is only two products - should I be doing something different when entering the products?

Thanks in advance

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12 years 3 weeks ago #71631

Hi,

1) I think that you have to create two custom fields, and then edit the view "product / show_block_custom_main" in HikaShop > Display > Views.
and replace the code:

		?>
			<tr class="hikashop_product_custom_<?php echo $oneExtraField->field_namekey;?>_line">
				<td class="key">
					<span id="hikashop_product_custom_name_<?php echo $oneExtraField->field_id;?>" class="hikashop_product_custom_name">
						<?php echo $this->fieldsClass->getFieldName($oneExtraField);?>
					</span>
				</td>
				<td>
					<span id="hikashop_product_custom_value_<?php echo $oneExtraField->field_id;?>" class="hikashop_product_custom_value">
						<?php echo $this->fieldsClass->show($oneExtraField,$value); ?>
					</span>
				</td>
			</tr>
		<?php

By, for example:

			if($oneExtraField->field_namekey == 'surname'){
		?>
			<tr class="hikashop_product_custom_<?php echo $oneExtraField->field_namekey;?>_line">
				<td class="key">
					<span id="hikashop_product_custom_name_<?php echo $oneExtraField->field_id;?>" class="hikashop_product_custom_name">
						<?php echo "Name";?>
					</span>
				</td>
				<td>
					<span id="hikashop_product_custom_value_<?php echo $oneExtraField->field_id;?>" class="hikashop_product_custom_value">
						<?php
							echo $this->fieldsClass->show($oneExtraField,$value);

			}elseif($oneExtraField->field_namekey == 'lastname'){
							echo " ".$this->fieldsClass->show($oneExtraField,$value);
						?>
					</span>
				</td>
			</tr>
			<?php
			}else{
		?>
			<tr class="hikashop_product_custom_<?php echo $oneExtraField->field_namekey;?>_line">
				<td class="key">
					<span id="hikashop_product_custom_name_<?php echo $oneExtraField->field_id;?>" class="hikashop_product_custom_name">
						<?php echo $this->fieldsClass->getFieldName($oneExtraField);?>
					</span>
				</td>
				<td>
					<span id="hikashop_product_custom_value_<?php echo $oneExtraField->field_id;?>" class="hikashop_product_custom_value">
						<?php echo $this->fieldsClass->show($oneExtraField,$value); ?>
					</span>
				</td>
			</tr>
		<?php
			}

2) You can hide the button filter in the options of the Filter Module in Joomla > Extensions > Module manager. To apply a filter automatically, in HikaShop > Display > Filters edit your filter and choose yes for the option "Submit on click".

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