I'm currently managing a website based on Joomla 1.5 with Virtumart. The site is used to list the products as we are a distribution company. I have a problem with the display of the product pages. Some are fine like:
http://www.anand.co.uk/catalogue/batteries/panalr6b10-apb-panasonic-alkaline-power-aa-4pack.html
But then I have Issues with products such as:
http://www.anand.co.uk/catalogue/smokers-sundries/zig-zag/cigarette-paper/zigredking-zig-zag-red-king-size.html
I've played around with associating the different products with different categories but this hasn't narrowed the problem down. There doesn't appear to be any part of the Virtuemart interface that can control the layout and appears to use tables.
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I'm a brand-new Magento developer, coming from more general web-dev.
What I'm trying to do is create a "Kiosk Mode" of a website to be displayed within an app. Kiosk mode is a stripped-down version of my existing Magento site for BROWSING only; no customer login, no cart. Don't show "Add to Cart" stuff on product pages, etc. I want the site to draw from my existing product catalogue. My site currently has three store-views, representing three different physical locations with different inventory (business is mainly local pickup).
From what I'm reading it seems like a Theme is the way to go here, but I've got a couple of questions:
1) Can I drive theme from referral URL? I've looked at this page, but the answer seems shaky and I don't want to dive in to the codebase on spec if I can help it:
Change magento theme/storeview based on referring URL?
2) Does everything I'm describing above seem possible using Magento themes? Can I hide cart, change product page layout to remove "Add to Cart", etc?
Many thanks in advance!
Kim
I searched that common issue but I didn't find almost anything...
I'd like to display just the amount of products I got (just 2 categories, but I need only one) in HP. Where can I found that variable and where do I have to "print" to see it on homepage? joomla 1.5.22, VM 1.1.5
Thanks a lot
I created a website for online shopping and i want to give my admin panel to some vendors so that they insert their own products related with a particular category they are dealing with.
For ex :- In electronics category,there are various options like cameras, mobiles etc.
1.So, i want one vendor who is related with mobiles should be allowed only to enter his related products(only mobiles) from admin panel.
2.And he should not be allowed to see or update the products in other categories like cameras.He will only be given access to update his related category.
How can i achieve this?
Thanks
This is not out the box and multi-user done properly is an Enterprise Edition feature, even if you want to do it 'multi-store' instead of 'category'.
You will probably find someone has written a module to support the functionality you are after, however, what you are after goes against the overall design of Magento Community Edition.
I am developing a joomla virtu mart store and need to display products form certain category in my sidebar its my second day of searching for such a mudule or some kind of hint but it did not worked for me anybody knows how can i do this.
check the package for VM in the 'Modules' folder.
I am a newbie to Joomla 1.7 & Virtuemart. I have used many CMS so far and in Joomla I need to do very common task. I need to have different layout for homepage, for product list and product details and so on. Every single page is generated from index.php which is in *joomla root/templates/my_own_template/* folder.
And one more question. Is there any Virtuemart 2.0 or Joomla 1.7 documentation? Because what I could see is that the versions are really different from old ones for which most documentation are written.
Thank you in advance for answers.
You're probably not going to find much documentation yet since that is usually the last thing that a developer does once the code is out and tested.
As for changing templates, you don't necessarily need to change templates to have different layouts. First, VM has several different theme files (theme is a VM template) that render the various pages. There are already different layouts you control in the admin. You can also change a particular page by adding or removing the various modules from pages. You can associate a module with all pages in the site, a selection of pages, an exclusion of pages, and no pages at all. Components like Advanced Module Manager give you even more control over where and when a module displays. A properly coded template will have collapsible module positions. So a page with no modules in the left column will not have a left column.
Lastly, Joomla 1.7 also allows the use of template styles. When you install a template, it creates a default style. You can duplicate and edit that style, then assign it to various menu items to achieve very different looks from one page to another. http://docs.joomla.org/Help16:Extensions_Template_Manager_Styles_Edit
Brent's answer is good – he's right that the look of a page can be determined by which modules are assigned, which VM layout is used, and by assigning different Joomla Templates/Styles to different menu items.
One issue that arises a lot with complex components like VirtueMart is that it can be awkward to assign different templates (or modules) to different menu items. This can mess up your menu structure, and there are times when VM will decide on a different menu item to display something rather than what you thought it should. So that messes up the modules and templates/styles. This is part of the down-side of having a menu-item-driven assignment system.
AMM is good for assigning modules to different pages independent of menu item - as is MetaMod (which has explicit VM support).
For assigning templates/styles to different pages in VM I would suggest Chameleon. Chameleon has form controls for selecting lots of different factors about VM (e.g. all the sub-page types, category of the item, cart contents and more) and you can use any of those factors to trigger a certain template/style. It can also trigger other actions like adding CSS/JS to the page, removing arbitrary menu items, switching the home page, etc.
So ultimately, using Brent's techniques and with Chameleon, MetaMod and/or AMM, you have a huge amount of control about how individual pages in VM look.