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Support / How to shut up ant_messages??
« on: June 30, 2015, 07:47:11 PM »
I realize you guys want us to promote the software and yes, we think its great etc etc... but that popup window is getting real annoying, real quick.

I deleted the entries from the DB.  That crashed the admin and on reload they were back (clever).  There really needs to be a "yeah, I got it - don't show again".  Am I missing it?

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Support / Currency... can we adjust some things?
« on: June 30, 2015, 06:02:10 PM »
I always amazes me how shopping cart suites ignore the spread  :)

Some questions:
  1) Can we change what server is used for auto-currency updates?
  2) Can we define a backup server?
  3) Can we define some limits in case the auto-update makes some nonsensical value (ie. puts the euro at 0.00001 USD)?
  4) Can we define an adjustment to account for the spread?  A simplistic mechanism is like the one Zen Cart uses, where you can take whatever value the server gives and "pad" it by a user-defined rate.  So if Yahoo says 1 USD is worth $1.25 CAD, our stores prices are shown as 1 USD = 1.25 * 1.05 = $1.31 CAD?  Otherwise a shop owner is forced to lose money each and every time a customer checks out in a foreign currency.  You can't possibly thing the banks give you the rate Yahoo says!  Zen Cart forces a one-size-fits all padding.  I would suggest a per-currency value (with a default if owner wishes) because some currencies have higher spreads than others.

I actually did a lot of currency-related extensions with Zen Cart.  If I can figure out AbanteCart's extension system I'd be happy to contribute here... but want to make sure I'm not missing something already available.  Also, extensions of this nature *probably* require core code modification... but I haven't taken a close enough look at your system to know if that's the case.  It would be nice to know that the admin would be open to changing the core on this rather than relying on extensions anyway.  Relying solely on Yahoo is... flawed.
 

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Customization help / *SOLVED* languages in "Blocks"?
« on: June 30, 2015, 04:35:48 PM »
I notice the blocks include hardcoded html (yuk).  I attempted to manually fix this, but I guess I'm not understanding how they are parsed.

This is a default block:

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<!-- Section Start-->
   <section class="container otherddetails">
   <div class="otherddetailspart">
      <div class="innerclass free">
         <h2>FREE SHIPPING</h2>
         All over in world over $200</div>
   </div>
   <div class="otherddetailspart">
      <div class="innerclass payment">
         <h2>
            Easy Payment</h2>
         Payment Gatway support</div>
   </div>
   <div class="otherddetailspart">
      <div class="innerclass shipping">
         <h2>
            24hrs Shipping</h2>
         For All US States</div>
   </div>
   <div class="otherddetailspart">
      <div class="innerclass choice">
         <h2>
            Large Variety</h2>
         50,000+ Products</div>
   </div>
   </section> <!-- Section End-->

[note I should be using the "code" formatting instead of "quote" above, but this forum complains I'm trying to post an external link!

Obviously all the English language in that html shouldn't be there.  It should be generic reference to language defines.  And that really should be a goal of the people that manage this software, but in the meantime how do I do this on my own?  I tried putting in a simple <?php echo "hello world"; ?> in there but it doesn't get translated.  is there some mechanism for putting dynamic content in those blocks?  Or some other way to actually make use of the language system?

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Support / What am I missing here? Re: text definitions
« on: June 30, 2015, 03:51:49 PM »
I'm brand new here.  First thing I did was test what happens when I set up Russian and view the store.  I see SOME, but not all text is translated.  OK, fine so I have to do some work.  That's OK (although, really, out-of-the-box language + out-of-the-box template should = out-of-the-box complete!)

I find language definitions, cool.

I love the sorting/searching.

I notice FREE SHIPPING is in English, so I type "FREE SHIPPING" into "Translation" and see, supposedly, all the instances.  Why there is more than one is beyond me, but whatever... I'm sure there's a reason.  So I change each one to things like:

FREE SHIPPING1
FREE SHIPPING2

and so on.  That way I'll know for sure which one it is.

Refresh the page, it still says "FREE SHIPPING".  Now I have to wonder if that is hardcoded somewhere?  That would be extremely poor coding practice so I'm sure that's not the case.

Someone enlighten me please :)

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Built-in Features / My first issue... let's see how it is handled
« on: June 30, 2015, 05:55:31 AM »
I just found AbanteCart and I haven't even installed it.  I'm operating off the demo provided.  I'm in the admin and I clicked on Reports then sales then orders.

I see:

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06/29/2015   06/29/2015   12   $3,759.77

I change the dates, select "Years" (with no explanation of what that does) and... well, I still see
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06/29/2015   06/29/2015   12   $3,759.77
.  Change some more things, click some buttons... nothing... ever... changes.

Now, that could be a limitation of the demo and its data.  So can someone tell me if the reporting really is as useless as it appears, or?

I have another question while I have you:  I see I can add currencies and define them.  Is there any mechanism for keeping them current?

Thanks!  Beautiful looking back end (hehe) but it needs to be functional too.

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